And they lived happily ever after
I have never liked fairy tales since I was a kid because I think they are unrealistic and will never happen in real life. The one sentence which I hated the most was 'And they lived happily ever after'.I believed that the writers of these beautiful endings are polluting the minds of little children, making them believe that they have the potential to be little princesses and some of them still do today (look at the number of girls who proclaimed themselves to be princess online...princess Jenny, princess Kimberly etc etc...). The biggest offence is letting little children believe that they can feed and survive on love and everyone will marry a prince someday.
I wondered how sure these writers are when they say 'And they lived happily ever after'. Remember how the prince and Cinderella only know each other for less than 3 days. What if the prince turns out to be a womanizer? Or if Cinderella happens to have bad breath? What if they have a character clash? Who gets up in the middle of the night when the baby starts to cry? And Cinderella being just a maid in her household and now married to a prince, how well-received will she be in the palace?
Snow white's story is even more ridicuious. Snow white if you recall, ate the poison apple and fell into a deep sleep and could not wake up. She was kissed and saved by a prince who happened to pass by and they married and live happily ever after.
What if the one who was on the horse was a pirate or a robber? So coincidence the prince of all people rode through the forest and saw Snow white and kissed her? Even if that is so then the prince must be a chee kok pek. How can you kiss someone you don't know on your first time? First time meet already kiss liao..2nd time I think he makes her pregnant already.
This is again bad education information for the little girls. Imagine one day a stranger approaches a little girl and wants a kiss from the girl.
Girl: No! How can you kiss me?
Stranger: I am a prince.
Girl: Really?
Stranger: Yah. Remember Snow White and the 7 dwarfs. She kissed a prince and they lived happily ever after.
Girl: Oh ya. Ok. Kiss me bah.
We must remember kids' minds are like a sponge in water. They absorb anything that comes their way. Fairy tales is the reason why there are so many child-molesters case victims. In my opinion, all the fairy tale books should be burnt or buried to ensure that such tragic cases will never happen again.
Another option will be to change the ending of the story and release a new edition. If I were the writer, the ending will be:
'And they were about to get married until Snow White realized how wrong it was for the prince to come and kiss her without even knowing her name. Furthermore his identiy was still unknown. What if he was the prince of a mob gang? Snow white then turned down his hand for marriage and filed a suit case against the prince for outrage of modesty. With the compensation she received, she was able to stop working and retired'.
That would have been a more realistic ending and also ensured that little girls will not pick up the wrong message. Well, then what about love you may ask since all fairy tales characters must have someone to marry in order to have a complete and blissful life.
'Well, in the end she married all 7 dwarfs and they all lived happily ever after'.
posted by malmoncolo @ 11:53 AM
4 Comments:
lolx! good one!
consolation- nowadyas kids are too engrossed in comp games than to read fairy tales. Only US who still believ in that. alright maybe just me. =p
yah...comp games also has negative effect on the kids nowadays...they should also be banned...all kids should be sent to poetry classes, piano classes and chinese calligraphy classes...the world will be a safer place..
Well, we all lose our innocence when we grow up.
But still, women will always hope for their prince charming arriving on a white horse.
haha.. good one..
but let those little kids had some fantasies lah.. we adults oso need some fantasies to keep us alive these days.
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