Talk:Moonchildren
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first off, "moonchildren" is already a common synonym for cancers (zodiac), at least in the US. back around the 70s, most horoscopes here adopted it in order to avoid the term "cancer" altogether. i believe they've softened on this in the years since ("cancer" once again being the standard in horoscopes, it appears), but most people between 20 and 70 or so associate the two.
so it's not like the name change was completely out of left field. assuming the characters in the play are all cancers/moonchildren, it's really just a more "PC" version of the same thing. paragraph should be reworded to reflect this.
moreover, ARE the characters all cancers/moonchildren?! the way the article reads now, one gets the impression moonchild means something else...disaffected youth or something. did the playwright confuse the term with "flower children" or the like? AFAIK, moonchild has no other meaning besides the zodiac one. 209.172.25.204 (talk) 23:57, 26 May 2014 (UTC)