Wednesday, January 07, 2009

No More Fairy Tales!

Traditional fairytales 'not PC enough' for parents - Telegraph: "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."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why does this sound like a bad episode of KING OF THE HILL?

Benjie said...

And we wonder why kids today don't understand age-old references.

If I could find a good copy, I'd read LITTLE BLACK SAMBO to my kids.

Anonymous said...

Oddly, I just watched Disney's classic SNOW WHITE, and she never refers to them as Dwarfs; she uses the term "little men."

Cap'n Bob said...

And what was the role, never spoken, of the one called Doc?

Anonymous said...

Oh, come on. Doc was gay. I mean same-gendered relational.

- Lawrence