Agree or Dissagre with Cinderella statement?

Question

"The mass-market American "Cinderellas" have presented the majority of American children with the wrong dream. They offer the passive princess, the "insipid beauty waiting... for Prince Charming" the Rosemary Minard objects to, and thus accuturate millions of girls and boys. But it is the wrong Cinderella and the magic of the old tales has been falsified, the true meaning lost, perhaps forever."

-Jane Yolen

Agree or Disagree?

Answer 1

Agree.

Answer 2

AGREE!!!!!

Answer 3

I agree it sends out the wrong message to little children....

Having to think that waiting would mean living forever in happiness....

Which ends up with being broken hearted and never believing in love, life and happiness in reality...

Answer 4

It's up to parents to instill the truths into their children's lives...not Disney. Even though I love the whimisical tale Disney tells and have allowed my daughter to watch this movie I am not going to teach her to base her life apon it. The true story has been so distorted that it has become another story all together.

I will read my daughter many tales and she will be exposed to a lot of mind altering images and thoughts in society today. As a parent my duty is to guide her on the right path and take in her surroundings not as they are ment to be viewed but how she wants to view them.

I have to say I agree...but when you look at the big picture Cinderella is only a small piece to this puzzle.

I do believe "A dream that you wish will come true" and I will teach my daughter this and allow her to read fairy tales that will spark imagination and creativity.

Answer 5

Totally agree, and Jane Yolen is a WONDERFUL author!  Anywho, girls are so bogged down with a man must rescue me!  I must have a boyfriend/husband to be complete.  I hate that, no woman needs a man.  We have them because we WANT them in our lives...not because we need them there.  And plus some are just pretty to look at!:p

Answer 6

Agreed.  Girls are much better off reading about scrappy, independent heroines who make a place for themselves in the world.  Perhaps Diana herself read one too many Harlequin romances?  Even the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen required a message of independence that Disney doesn't have.

Answer 7

If you look hard enough you can find The Brothers' Grimm, or pre-Grimm fairy tales, etc.

We all know the original ones weren't meant to be happy, sunny bedtime stories.

And the idea of an independent, assertive, aggressive woman is a new idea and thus that's why we still have those types of fairy tales. A modern fairy tale would be like the Princess Diaries series, Ella Enchanted, etc.

Answer 8

i have to say that i agree even though i was the biggest fan of cinderella. She did give me the view of a passive girl, waiting for others' help. I've changed though.

Answer 9

It's not wrong to wait to meet the "right" person. However, there is a danger in words from an old song "Rescue me and take me in your arms", as if without the man, the woman must forever suffer. It insinuates that women might not be happy for a time, anyway, by themselves and have no value without some men who are cads. Hopefully I have not missed the boat on this question.

Answer 10

I agree that many classic fairy tales have had their plot changed from the original "dark" tone. Many Americans only know these fairy tales through the Walt Disney movies and think that every one of these stories has a happy ending. My friends tend to only watch the movies and not read the original story. Then when I tell them the original tale, they are instantly in horror on how dark the plot or ending really is. A lot of these stories were told to scare children into being good, doing their chores, and obeying their parents (Read the Grimms' fairy tale "The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage" for a good example).

    

I have not seen or heard of any girl (or boy) having their life greatly affected by mass-market princesses other than the one or two year phase most little girls go through wanting to be Cinderella or Ariel.

Answer 11

Agree completely.  it creates the whole rescue syndrome in our society.  Just like prince charming in sleeping beauty actually raped sleeping beauty to wake her, not very nice if you ask me!

Answer 12

Agree

Answer 13

agree agrree agrreee