Today I read about 5 different versions of two classic princess movies- Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. In these stories, they did not go by such names but after a few lines you realize that you have heard a similar story before. I think that you take for granted the story that is truely being taught in the "princess" stories because it ends up being about the "Happily Ever After". How often do you sit down and think, " Wow, why did the hunts man not stand up the to the queen and behead her for the threat on Snow White?, or What made Sleeping Beauty's family believe in the faeries?"
I have come to see that all stories have flaws, but they also have history and a message. The image being painted in these stories is that rulers who remarry never make a good choice, husbands do not trust a second wife, Snow White/ Sleeping Beauty be smart about who you trust. ( That's just to name a few)
Today one of my students said that he got mad when his female friends were passive on feminism. I then expressed that I thought that all women have a little bit of feminism but in some it is not visual to ANY man. Women need to learn that they can be in charge too, and they need to become their own hero and watch their backs.
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