Posted on 01/07/2009 11:13:55 AM PST by Joiseydude
Favourites such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Rapunzel are being dropped by some families who fear children are being emotionally damaged.
A third of parents refused to read Little Red Riding Hood because she walks through woods alone and finds her grandmother eaten by a wolf.
One in 10 said Snow White should be re-named because "the dwarf reference is not PC".
Rapunzel was considered "too dark" and Cinderella has been dumped amid fears she is treated like a slave and forced to do all the housework.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Good grief. Fairy tales ARE dark. But most children don’t see them that way unless parents present it like that. Like most things in life, if a parent sees that something upsets a child, then stop presenting it to them! Why try to prevent the rest of society from enjoying them?
Fairy tales are an important link to past history as well as revealing some universal fears and joys among people.
The old fairy tales were evolutions of ancient myths that expressed realities about human nature, abnormal psychology, practical economics and other truths that haven’t changed any since then. Fairy tales of the classic variety help prepare children to deal with the world as it is, not as the deluded fools who follow PC would like it to be. There are plenty of real oppressed and exploited Cinderellas out there, and wolves who eat grandmothers are unfortunately quite common. Et cetera.
Could someone please gather up all the knives and belts in the Western nations. They are on suicide watch.
Cinderella has been dumped amid fears she is treated like a slave and forced to do all the housework.
Uh...that was the POINT of that story.
These people are idiots, aren’t they?
Oh. U.K. Not surprised, then.
There’s one fairy tale that they forgot to mention.
Jack and the Bean Stalk.
How the big bad giant (government) tried to take Jack’s pot o gold he worked hard for.......
Protect us from idiocy.
If they think THOSE are bad, they should take a look at some of the Russian (translated) Fairy Tales I’ve been reading to my 7 year old son.
And he sleeps like a baby every night.
......but you can be sure that Christian bashing tales like “The Golden Compass” will be protected.....
I guess the libs have enough fairy tales about Obama to tell to their kids already.
“Almost 20 per cent of adults said they refused to read Hansel and Gretel because the children were abandoned in a forest..”
I’d rather be abandoned in a forest than a city. As a matter of fact, I try get abandoned in a forest as much as possible.
sounds like a grimm situation
ping
A culture too weak for fairy tales. . . Chesterton had much good to say about fairy tales including the need for philosophers to be nurtured on them. Traditional fairy tales probably saved Chesterton from the skepticism of the Diabolist at Slade Art school.
Aesop’s fable about the ants and the grasshopper does not promote fairness and charity or economic justice.
Hansel and Gretel promotes obesity and the idea of snacking.
fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an engishman......
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Ugh.
Jack was engaging in redistribution of wealth (the Giant’s goose laid the golden eggs).
Even Robin Hood was taking BACK the taxpayer’s money from Big Government.
An’ ol Brer Fox, every time he smack the Tar Baby, the stucker he got
I think it is obvious that children thrive better when they feel safe. However, this is taking it too the extreme, to where these children may have no protection once they have to deal with other children to say the least. Sheltering children to this degree, I think will do more harm than good down the road. At some point they will hear of horrific things later is better than sooner, but having never even heard of horrifying things as are presented in fairy tales. I think will magnify the horror of real life situations. Children do get kidnapped and lured by people that want to do them harm. Hansel and Gretel warns of this. Some children are treated horribly by adults and several fairy tales point that out, it is usually the step mother, but no matter, they let children know the world isn’t all rainbows and butterflies. I have to also wonder if these kids are at all prepared for the rough and tumble other kids are more than capable of providing.
We wouldn’t want children to learn life lessons, would we?
I remember a story from a couple of years ago that my British husband and I still roll our eyes about. A town in the UK was putting on a show of Snow White and they changed the title to Snow White and the 7 Gnomes just to be PC.
And I guess the Big Bad Wolf is an unfair stereotype.
There was a great book I have called “Politically Correct Fairy Tails”.
I think these clowns would enjoy it to read to their children but the irony and sarcasm would be lost on them.
Liberals have very small braincases - generally.
Who could forget the vain girl getting her feet chopped off by the kindly wood cutter in The Red Shoes (at her request, after learning humility)? Or Sleeping Beauty being cursed with death by spinning wheel while in her crib (amended to a long sleep by someone else)? Good stuff. And what happened to me from reading all those violent tales?
I grew up to be a Conservative!
sitting here shaking my head, i believe these people get up every morning and the first thing they do is tke their stupid pills .........
I’m not surprised. Even old Disney movies aren’t PC enough for this crowd.
OLD VERSION . . .
The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool. He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.
Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
The moral to the story being: BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF!
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NEW VERSION
The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool. He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.
Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm. The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and fed, while others are cold and starving!
CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN show up to provide pictures of shivering grasshoppers, next to a video of an ant in his comfortable home, with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast! How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer this way?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah, with the grasshopper. Everyone cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green".
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news stations film the group singing "We Shall Overcome". Jesse then has the group pray for the grasshopper's sake, and reminds the group to contribute to his group, so that he can "continue the fight" for grasshoppers, everywhere!
Ted Kennedy & John Kerry exclaim, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, that the ant has gotten rich, off the back of the poor grasshopper! Both call for an immediate tax hike, to make the ant pay "his fair share"!
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity For Grasshoppers Act", retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire the proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his house is confiscated by the government.
Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper, in a defamation suit against the ant. The case is tried in federal court, with a jury comprised of unemployed welfare recipients.
Surprise! The ant loses the case!
The story ends, as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food, while the government house he lives in (which happens to be the ant's old house) crumbles around him, due to lack of maintenance!
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found, dead, in a drug-related incident. The house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders, who terrorize this once-peaceful neighborhood.
The moral of this version? Don't vote for Democrats or liberals.
A few years back, my mom emailed this "New Version" to all her friends. One friend's son, a liberal arts PhD, was highly offended and replied-all back to chastise my mom and whine about racism and oppression of the poor and perpetually lazy. How could my mom be so cruel? These people were kept down by da white man (and this was a white guy).
Fast forward a few years and his daughter was expelled from a very snooty school for building pipe bombs.
I really had some schadenfreude over that one!
Next they’ll be going after “Bugs Bunny” cartoons. Can’t have stories working on multiple levels, y’know. Too subversive!
You didn’t catnap our cat today, did you? Looks just like ours, although our PC is maybe the one thing she hasn’t gotten into!
I heard that the word “ninja” is verboten in England and that they were called The Teenaged Mutant HERO Turtles over there.
Give ‘r time!
I’m just imagining my husband responding to a cat-infested computer. Not sure he would survive it!
("* That is to say, those who deserve to shed blood. Or possibly not. You never quite know with some kids.")
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