![]() Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast vanilla girls like Cinderella goth girls like Snow White. Ariel might have given up her voice for a dude, but Aurora barely uses hers: she has a grand total of eighteen (18) lines in her own movie, fewer than the prince, the villain, or any of the individual fairy godmothers.Įven among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody’s favorite. Jezebel ranked it as the “least woke” Disney movie of all time, which, in a world where The Little Mermaid exists, is really saying something. (“She literally sleeps through her own climax,” as my favorite gender studies professor used to say. ![]() ![]() It’s the fairy tale that feminist scholars cite when they want to talk about women’s passivity in historical narratives. ![]() It’s aimless and amoral and chauvinist as shit. SLEEPING BEAUTY IS pretty much the worst fairy tale, any way you slice it. ![]()
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