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Tex · 01-14-2009, 01:54 PM

So say British parents.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/us_wo...-For-Kids.html

Brits are wussies. German kids get to meet Struwwelpeter.

RedHeadGal · 01-21-2009, 04:07 PM

Snow White is one of the most offensive stories I know.

SeattleUte · 01-21-2009, 04:43 PM

This is such bullshit. It makes my blood boil. I read my little kids artful retellings of Beowulf, the Iliad, the Odyssey, not to mention Jack in the Beanstock. They're full of bloodshed.

creekster · 01-21-2009, 04:50 PM

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They're full of bloodshed.

In fact, that's why kids like them.

il Padrino Ute · 01-21-2009, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by RedHeadGal

Snow White is one of the most offensive stories I know.

BarbaraGordon · 01-21-2009, 08:42 PM

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Snow White is one of the most offensive stories I know.

It's pretty appalling.

Archaea · 01-21-2009, 10:00 PM

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It's pretty appalling.

Are we speaking of the fairytale or the porno flick, because i'm missing something here?

BarbaraGordon · 01-21-2009, 11:59 PM

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Are we speaking of the fairytale or the porno flick, because i'm missing something here?

What's not to love? You've got the implication that a woman must be young and beautiful, white as a dove, and pure as the driven snow. When at home she makes herself comfortable by cleaning up after seven slovenly men, singing arias while doing so. In her spare time she darns their socks.

Like Eve before her, Snow White is too weak to resist temptation and partakes of a poisoned fruit. She awaits redemption in the form of a dashing young prince.

Archaea · 01-22-2009, 12:02 AM

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What's not to love? You've got the implication that a woman must be young and beautiful, white as a dove, and pure as the driven snow. When at home she makes herself comfortable by cleaning up after seven slovenly men, singing arias while doing so. In her spare time she darns their socks.

Like Eve before her, Snow White is too weak to resist temptation and partakes of a poisoned fruit. She awaits redemption in the form of a dashing young prince.

Well, when you put it that way, it was obviously a sexist pig, who desired to enslave women for his own sexual purposes. How did I miss that one.

Tex · 01-22-2009, 12:50 AM

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Well, when you put it that way, it was obviously a sexist pig, who desired to enslave women for his own sexual purposes. How did I miss that one.

Some folks read too much into things.

01-14-2009, 01:54 PM	#1
Tex Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8,596	Fairy tales too scary, and/or not PC enough So say British parents. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/us_wo...-For-Kids.html Brits are wussies. German kids get to meet Struwwelpeter. __________________ "Have we been commanded not to call a prophet an insular racist? Link?" "And yes, [2010] is a very good year to be a Democrat. Perhaps the best year in decades ..." - Cali Coug "Oh dear, granny, what a long tail our puss has got." - Brigham Young

01-21-2009, 04:43 PM	#3
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	This is such bullshit. It makes my blood boil. I read my little kids artful retellings of Beowulf, the Iliad, the Odyssey, not to mention Jack in the Beanstock. They're full of bloodshed. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

01-21-2009, 04:07 PM	#2
RedHeadGal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: DC Posts: 995	Snow White is one of the most offensive stories I know.