There was a piece someone wrote on LiveJournal over a year ago...
http://siderea.livejournal.com/201206.html
I think it's a great bit of writing and of sociology in general, and especially check out her brief discussion of Grimm. Apparently the tales are, to say the least, out of vogue in primary-education circles, and some of her classmates didn't understand why...and when they realized that, for example, Cinderella is about passively accepting abuse until you are swept away, and Beauty and the Beast is pretty much the anti-Lifetime Original Movie, they were quite shocked.
(The points raised about Disney versus "original" are another topic, one I'm not touching on until I'm sure I have my thoughts in order...but I know the theme is "is the Disney version somehow less because it's a rewrite?")
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http://siderea.livejournal.com/201206.html
I think it's a great bit of writing and of sociology in general, and especially check out her brief discussion of Grimm. Apparently the tales are, to say the least, out of vogue in primary-education circles, and some of her classmates didn't understand why...and when they realized that, for example, Cinderella is about passively accepting abuse until you are swept away, and Beauty and the Beast is pretty much the anti-Lifetime Original Movie, they were quite shocked.
(The points raised about Disney versus "original" are another topic, one I'm not touching on until I'm sure I have my thoughts in order...but I know the theme is "is the Disney version somehow less because it's a rewrite?")