.... They were all lost boys for the same reason as all the wayward children on Pleasure Island were boys. They were stories for warning boys about the vices that they would face as men/examples of what happens specifically to boys when they stray. Yep, sexist, but not in the way Hollywood would want to think. The Lost Boys aren't heroes, never were. It's the same kind of stupid spin that makes modern folk think the only people hiding in the woods were misunderstood good guys like the Merry Men, and not the "wolves" of fairy tales and dark winter night-time raids.
.... They were all lost boys for the same reason as all the wayward children on Pleasure Island were boys. They were stories for warning boys about the vices that they would face as men/examples of what happens specifically to boys when they stray. Yep, sexist, but not in the way Hollywood would want to think. The Lost Boys aren't heroes, never were. It's the same kind of stupid spin that makes modern folk think the only people hiding in the woods were misunderstood good guys like the Merry Men, and not the "wolves" of fairy tales and dark winter night-time raids.
Girls had their own warning tales.