What's your favorite fairy tale? Why?

Okay, you know what? I don’t like fairy tales. Not any more.

In my defense, I’d say it’s totally not my fault. I’ve got a friend, right, and she gets completely foaming at the mouth whenever so much as someone starts whistling a Disney tune.

Because it was those movies, which quite obviously are promoting blatant gender stereotypes about chicks. Even the slightly more progressive movies (which would be 1980s onward or something, right?) usually end up with the princess hitched to a guy, right? And, let’s take Belle for instance, one of the only bimbos who actually shows a modicum of intelligence, and somehow she still ends up with the handsome prince.

And then you try to say to this friend of mine: “Ah, but they’re being faithful to the original story” and she says exactly, which just goes to show for how long these stereotypes have been perpetuated. What were they meant to teach? Women who aren’t faithful or chaste or obedient to their parents get devoured by wolves or turned into animals or something. This friend of mine would then go on how it stretches back even further than that and across to all cultures where the patriarchy has been instated, if you look at classical myths and legends and things, you’ll see it’s there too, and things really haven’t changed at all.

Fairy tales only serve to further enforce the roles that are being pushed on girls since their infancy along with what’s being shoved down their throats by the rest of the media and American culture as a whole. And for all that you could say that even though, at least, old Walt himself as dead, his legacy is left and even those films made after his death were hardly any better.

Now, see, you have all that banging around in your head every time someone flips on Snow White, and you try to enjoy it.