My sympathies are in that direction too.
Hans Christian Anderson himself had a story of a hard life, rejected in childhood, and expressed his feelings about it in his stories. He was reported to have entertained homosexual crushes, though they were rebuffed. Where parental love has been denied or twisted, the stage is often set for blundering into such temptations. Notice that we’re not blaming this on what Hans Christian Anderson read — except what he read in how he was treated by his parents.
And yet his stories live on, most people who read them never thinking of anything but the kind of fantasy common to manifestly normal children. Why not redeem his stories by reflecting on wholesome implications of their charm? Putting the pieces together that Anderson attempted to do personally in his fantasy medium?
***He was reported to have entertained homosexual crushes,***
I read, years ago, in a National Geographic article about him that he courted and asked several women to marry him but was rebuffed each time because he was homely and not a handsome man at all.
I must have read a book of his fairy tales 10 times, when I was growing up. I loved those stories!