his beef is with “happily ever after” which is non-central to fairy tales, to put it mildly
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Indeed. It's more the Hollywood adaptations that really center on "happily ever after."
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that's the kind of take one acquires by getting one's entire idea of fairy tales from Disneyhttps://twitter.com/discordianquote/status/712190082682327040 …
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They clearly just hate corporatism and sanitization, not fairy tales themselves
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While most traditional fairy tales do have at least a roughly HEA ending, the middle is ANYTHING but happy. If you want to sell HEA, you should have to show the middle, says I.
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Random example: Remember Cinderella's sisters? When the slipper didn't fit, in one traditional version, one of them CUT OFF HER TOES and the other CUT OFF HER HEEL to try to make their feet go in.
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Give your kids The Bloody Chamber
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