Posted on 01/07/2009 11:13:55 AM PST by Joiseydude
Favourites such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Rapunzel are being dropped by some families who fear children are being emotionally damaged.
A third of parents refused to read Little Red Riding Hood because she walks through woods alone and finds her grandmother eaten by a wolf.
One in 10 said Snow White should be re-named because "the dwarf reference is not PC".
Rapunzel was considered "too dark" and Cinderella has been dumped amid fears she is treated like a slave and forced to do all the housework.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Good grief. Fairy tales ARE dark. But most children don’t see them that way unless parents present it like that. Like most things in life, if a parent sees that something upsets a child, then stop presenting it to them! Why try to prevent the rest of society from enjoying them?
Fairy tales are an important link to past history as well as revealing some universal fears and joys among people.
The old fairy tales were evolutions of ancient myths that expressed realities about human nature, abnormal psychology, practical economics and other truths that haven’t changed any since then. Fairy tales of the classic variety help prepare children to deal with the world as it is, not as the deluded fools who follow PC would like it to be. There are plenty of real oppressed and exploited Cinderellas out there, and wolves who eat grandmothers are unfortunately quite common. Et cetera.
Could someone please gather up all the knives and belts in the Western nations. They are on suicide watch.
Cinderella has been dumped amid fears she is treated like a slave and forced to do all the housework.
Uh...that was the POINT of that story.
These people are idiots, aren’t they?
Oh. U.K. Not surprised, then.
There’s one fairy tale that they forgot to mention.
Jack and the Bean Stalk.
How the big bad giant (government) tried to take Jack’s pot o gold he worked hard for.......
Protect us from idiocy.
If they think THOSE are bad, they should take a look at some of the Russian (translated) Fairy Tales I’ve been reading to my 7 year old son.
And he sleeps like a baby every night.
......but you can be sure that Christian bashing tales like “The Golden Compass” will be protected.....
I guess the libs have enough fairy tales about Obama to tell to their kids already.
“Almost 20 per cent of adults said they refused to read Hansel and Gretel because the children were abandoned in a forest..”
I’d rather be abandoned in a forest than a city. As a matter of fact, I try get abandoned in a forest as much as possible.
sounds like a grimm situation
ping
A culture too weak for fairy tales. . . Chesterton had much good to say about fairy tales including the need for philosophers to be nurtured on them. Traditional fairy tales probably saved Chesterton from the skepticism of the Diabolist at Slade Art school.
Aesop’s fable about the ants and the grasshopper does not promote fairness and charity or economic justice.
Hansel and Gretel promotes obesity and the idea of snacking.
fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an engishman......
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Ugh.
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