Fairytales
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tamiya
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Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I work for a best selling and world renowned fantasy author. His stuff is particularly blood thirsty and can be sexually violent. He is the most down to earth and grounded person out there. Same goes for his wife. His 3 kids have campaigned for years to let him read from one of his books at bedtime. It ain’t gonna happen. 
Drago
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Is that the chap who wrote the Janet and John books?
Lullabelle
Banana
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- Midlands UK
They are just fairy stories, they don't reflect the real world! If parents aren't happy fine don't read them or let them watch the film, while your at it, ban all fairytale and princess stuff that is in the shops, raise your daughters to be man hating ball breakers.
Failing that, be a responsible parent and teach your children the difference between a story of fiction and reality.
Failing that, be a responsible parent and teach your children the difference between a story of fiction and reality.
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Utter filth from my kindergarten days. Pass the mind bleach.
Fnaar
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I live in a house made of gingerbread 
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I remember the Janet and John books from my days in primary school, they were of their time.
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Funny you should say that, I had just noticed this headline when I clicked over here.
https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2018/10/woman-avoids-jail-after-grabbing-mans-genitals/
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
I don't see a disconnect between being a responsible parent and asking how these stories work today, rather the opposite in fact. It's also something which is being recognised by the mighty Disney of course, Tangled, Frozen and Moana all taking rather a different direction to the Cinderella's and Snow Whites. The new Wreck It Ralph film has a scene which features the Disney princesses past and present making reference to their apparent utter reliance on men.
Literature reflects society when it was written. For a poor woman in the era when Snow White was written, probably the only way of getting away from a life of poverty was to marry a wealthy Prince.
A few hundred years from now, people will probably read the books being written today and cringe at them.
A few hundred years from now, people will probably read the books being written today and cringe at them.
Mr Celine
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It would be difficult to totally exclude such cultural references so I tended to try to explain them in a more up to date context, though this did not include the use of modern weaponry as per @Drago.
For example I remember one New Year's day, after the tooth fairy had failed to appear, having to explain to a disappointed Celinette the concept of public holidays and why it was important that the tooth fairy had them.
For example I remember one New Year's day, after the tooth fairy had failed to appear, having to explain to a disappointed Celinette the concept of public holidays and why it was important that the tooth fairy had them.
irw
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Nothing to do, of course, with the fact that the preceding night had been New Year's Eve and Mr Celine had probably been partying hard enough to forget to 'employ' the tooth fairy....Good cover up though
Mr Celine
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Nothing to do, of course, with the fact that the preceding night had been New Year's Eve and Mr Celine had probably been partying hard enough to forget to 'employ' the tooth fairy....Good cover up though
I thought I'd got away with it.
But next time she lost a tooth she didn't tell anyone for three days and the tooth fairy didn't visit. The night after she told us, the tooth fairy finally made an appearance. She was taught a valuable lesson, ie parents tell lies when it suits them.