I'm Blue Dabadi Daboodi

Old song by Efiel 65 which no one really ever knew the true lyrics to but one interpretation goes" I'm blue dabodi dobodi, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die." I image the blue beard as being a grey bearded man ( because as a child you think that grey sometimes looks blue) of wealth and power but beer bellied and pretty unattractive. In the world we are in, looks do not matter because money is power and power is power.

Fairy tales like these does not change a womans want for being wanted. We see it all too often that women face torment and hatred just to be wanted 10 percent of the time.

WHUPPIE

Over the weekend I was trying to partake in the educators discount, being a poor college student who teaches part time that enjoys reading but hates the cost that it takes, and I came across a book that said it was about birth order and how it defines who we are. Upon reading that I tried to decide what my birth order was: birth parents: only child, live with parents: middle child, mother in another state: oldest child. So I have decided maybe I am all in one and buck all trends and should stop reading titles to silly books that think they can define you.

I wonder what the book would have said about the people in the story of Molly Whuppie?
First Woman to think about would be WIFE. WIFE is in the story with no specific speaking, but there is a lot of physiological background in the one line that speaks about her. WIFE is willing to leave her three youngest children behind. Maybe she was a middle child- harm from the older and younger gave her detachment issues allowing her to leave the unacknowledged behind. This wife acted with herself in mind and not as today's image of mom. Mothers in today culture do not like letting people out of their eyesight. We have taken this over loving to the term s"mother'. Wife did not smother.

Then there is the giants wife, afraid of the man. A very typical middle child reaction. 

Molly's two sisters were quite. Both would be considered as middle sisters, but change rolls in the story when the three are neglected and they become the oldest and middle, as defined by the King. Neither of these sisters have voice in the story, and they allow the baby to take control.

Baby Molly Whuppie saves the day. Without Molly, all three girls would have died at the hands of the giant. Molly was selfless multiple times.

Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1898), pp. 125-30

Creeping in the dark

When I was four years old, I would wake up with my dad at about 2:00 am ( during the summer) and we would grab a bottle of water and jump in his big truck. We lived in an apartment complex that was surrounded by land that had not been developed yet( I say yet because about 12 years later we moved back into this area and the house my dad lives in is apart of the once fields). We would pull the truck ( with the lights off) up into the field and watch nature. Sometimes it was deer feeding, but we would often see coyotes/wolves stalking prey. I remember knowing that they lived in the woods, but during the day there was a path that walked through the woods and my babysitter would take us down the path and back. From then on, I had this notion that wolves only attacked at night, that is when I respected sunset and would go home before it was dark.
Our society has lost that respect, and there are more attacks by "wild animals". We do not see as many wolves, but men have taken this role and attack their prey at night.

HOOOOOOWWWWWWL

I remember knowing at a young age that men whistled at women. Men also whistle, pucker their lips and bark/howl at women. There were stereotypes of which men would do this to women, but in my experience I have learned it comes from every race. Then the movie "The Mask" came out and he was doing all kinds of dog motions to flirt with women. I think that a man acting like an animal to pick up a woman makes the woman like prey. He uses his "charm" to lure her in, and then pounces her to make her his.

I have no idea why we think this is okay. I know that we are seen by some as primate, and thus animals as well but I think we could treat each other better.

Painted Beauty

"My lady, I turn bisclavret;
I plunge into that great forest. In thick woods I like it best.
I live on what prey I can get." When he'd told her all the story

She asked, inquired one thing more: he Undressed?2 Or what did he wear?
"My lady," he said, "I go all bare."
"Where are your clothes? Tell, for God's sake." "My lady, I won't say this, no;

For if I lost them by this mistake,
From that moment on, I'd know
I'd stay a bisclavret forever;
Nothing could help me, I'd never Change back till I got them again.
That's why I don't want it known." (Bisclavret)

Humans have a flaw that they do not like being seen undressed of the things that represent who we are. We use fashion, animals, cars and food to define us and we feel that without them we are empty and do not want to be seen. This is why the Bisclavret did not want to be seen in transition or as the monster that he turns into. He did eventually ( as noted in this text) trust the one he loves with this knowledge.I think you know that love is pure when you are willing to be seen pure and naked( not physically).








"Bisclavret" . Marie de France.

Poor Husband

In the decade where infidelity is skyrocketing, I sadly understand the sadness of the Bisclavret. I think the wife was needy, and did not want the husband to be happy in any situation that did not involve her. Then in being afraid the wife gives up on the great relationship she had because someone else showed her attention. There are many reasons that there is infidelity, but none of them are good. I actually think the real wolf in the story is the man wooing the Bisclavets wife.

Disney is not the only one

During this weeks reading, I found that Disney is not the only one who makes children go though life with only one parent. Being a child who grew up with a single dad ( and then step parent and siblings), I think that I find situations with other single parents very quickly. There are things that you learn from both parents, the reason that nature ( and God ) plans for all children to have one parent of each sex. I know that there are things I did not gather from the lack of woman influence in my life, I bet Red suffers from not learning outdoors smarts from a father. In the Grimm version of LRRH the mother tells the daughter to stay on the path to not break the bottle of wine she was being sent with, but the mother said no other warning. Since a story like this does not tell the whole life story, you do not know what LRRH knew from previous experience but that is any story, and any life- you learn with age and experience or a mom and a dad.

Grimm. "Little Red Cap." Little Red Riding Hood. Print.
Grimm. "Little Red Riding Hood." Little Red Riding Hood. Print.