Rob

Plague, rape, suicide, and unhappiness. Not the words you typically associate with the Disney Princesses hmmm... Welp, in the original versions of these "fairy tales" these were all pretty recurring themes. We were talking about how different the original Hans Christian anderson versions of these stories were in English and I decided to check it out. Apparently, in the original Cinderella, when the wicked( or evil or something to that affect) step sisters couldnt fit their fat feet (or at least too large to be those of a musically-gifted princess) into the glass slipper, they just chose to start chopping off whichever pieces they couldn't shove in there. And in the original sleeping beauty, the prince was so taken by the sleeping girl's appearance that he "went to town" on her narcoleptic frame. The beauty had twins which just crawled out of her, clearly without the restraint of an umbilical cord. One sucked the poisoined splinter out of her hand, she woke up and decided to marry the prince, accepting his necrophilia,one of his worse qualities I assume.(A commercial for Marlee and Me on DVD just came on. I never saw it but I heard it was good, maybe it'll come on HBO or something)And how about in the Little Mermaid. In the non- plagirized version, Arielle commits suicide because she is unable to attain the prince, becoming just foam on the beach. And it doesn't stop there, all of these originals have some sort of dark overtone, which makes since considering the original fairy tales were meant to scare children into doing things. My entire childhood unraveled when I found out the the last little pig actually ate the wolf along with his two brothers as literary punishment for their stupidity, but that's okay. Rumplestilskin, the Beast, the Big Bad wolf... ALL RAPISTS. Don't believe me? Google that shit...
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