To understand Western imperialists, read Western fairy tales. Not the Disney ones, the original, fucked up ones.
Here’s a sample:
Cinderella’s step sisters chop off parts of their feet to fit in the slipper. The crows then peck out their eyes and they spend their lives as blind beggars.
Sleeping beauty is not kissed awake by a prince (and even that would be considered sexual assault in most modern countries as it’s still non-consentual contact of a sexual nature or with sexual intent), instead, she is r*ped by a king, gets pregnant in her sleep, and wakes up due to the pain of childbirth.
The little mermaid doesn’t just trade her voice for human legs, she also gets cursed that every step she takes as a human will feel like walking on knives. When the prince cheats on her, she is given the recourse of killing him to prevent her own death. She refuses to at the last minute, and throws herself into the sea where she dissolves.
Still want to talk about how Soviet kids stories are apparently the worst?
Yep. Wikipedia confirm that’s the one I was thinking about.
Gosh, the story is worst than I remembered. According to wikipedia…
When a famine settles over the land, the woodcutter’s second wife tells the woodcutter to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death. The woodcutter opposes the plan, but his wife claims that maybe a stranger will take the children in and provide for them, which the woodcutter and she simply cannot do.
To understand Western imperialists, read Western fairy tales. Not the Disney ones, the original, fucked up ones.
Here’s a sample:
Cinderella’s step sisters chop off parts of their feet to fit in the slipper. The crows then peck out their eyes and they spend their lives as blind beggars.
Sleeping beauty is not kissed awake by a prince (and even that would be considered sexual assault in most modern countries as it’s still non-consentual contact of a sexual nature or with sexual intent), instead, she is r*ped by a king, gets pregnant in her sleep, and wakes up due to the pain of childbirth.
The little mermaid doesn’t just trade her voice for human legs, she also gets cursed that every step she takes as a human will feel like walking on knives. When the prince cheats on her, she is given the recourse of killing him to prevent her own death. She refuses to at the last minute, and throws herself into the sea where she dissolves.
Still want to talk about how Soviet kids stories are apparently the worst?
There’s also that one story (I forgot the name) that kids burn a woman to death. Granted, she’s a witch, but still…
Hänsel und Gretel?
Yep. Wikipedia confirm that’s the one I was thinking about.
Gosh, the story is worst than I remembered. According to wikipedia…
Yep, off to a good start.