Nice! I rewrote the Princess and the Pea for my daughter. It begins as usual with the prince's parents being convinced she is good enough for him coz she is bruised by a pea under 20 mattresses. Obviously, the problem with that is that she immediately dies in childbirth.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/933861975465123840 …
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Hm... Only problem with that is that it seems to be a massive endorsement of social constructivism. At least as regards princesses. Still, a huge improvement on the original!
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Some things are socially constructed. We can raise kids to be resilient and deal with hardship.
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I'm sure that's right, up to a point. In fact I always assumed that until I heard Pinker talking about how many personality traits are shared by separated identical twins. But mainly I was just making a lame joke, there.
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Well, yes, this is true. Some people won't be strong and some won't be timid no matter how they are raised. Oh, ok.
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You're a good writer. Your fairie tales need a bit of a polish though, before you reach H.C.Andersen territory
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Princess correctness gone mad.
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Isn’t that Catherine the Great’s back story?
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I think this is easier for the English to imagine after Elizabeth (1 and 2) and Victoria.
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