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Jun. 22nd, 2007 12:10 pmWHY, in a society permissive enough to condone de facto interspecies relationships with mutant babies, is there no female succession in Far Far Away?... today's little girls are still being fed the "be beautiful, sit tight and wait to be rescued" line, as favoured by Cinderella (girl, go out and get a job and career of your own), Sleeping Beauty (you should never wait 100 years for a man; you probably shouldn't even wait a week if he hasn't called for that long) and Snow White (who admittedly did have a go at polygamy before settling down with one man).
Is it too much to ask for a fairytale that empowers little girls? Why didn't the Little Mermaid just become Queen of the Ocean and demand that the prince drop his career to come and live under the sea with her? And if Rapunzel can bear the weight of a grown man on her hair, surely she could carry her own weight, get down from the damn tower and go hit the clubs.
Seriously, if it's OK for Donkey and Dragon to live together before marriage and have multiple donkey-dragon (dragkeys?) mutant babies, surely they live in a society where it's OK for a girl to take the throne.
Is it too much to ask for a fairytale that empowers little girls? Why didn't the Little Mermaid just become Queen of the Ocean and demand that the prince drop his career to come and live under the sea with her? And if Rapunzel can bear the weight of a grown man on her hair, surely she could carry her own weight, get down from the damn tower and go hit the clubs.
Seriously, if it's OK for Donkey and Dragon to live together before marriage and have multiple donkey-dragon (dragkeys?) mutant babies, surely they live in a society where it's OK for a girl to take the throne.