What’s Wrong with Cinderella?
Posted on November 28th, 2007 in Childcare
She wouldn’t let her daughter read any fairytales: “Take Cinderella, for example: it just teaches a girl that to be marriageable, you have to be beautiful.” Well, OK, if that’s really what her 4 year old daughter would come away with. For me, that’s not what that story ever communicated to me: instead, the notion it planted in me was that one day, there’d be a guy who’d love me so much that nobody else would do, and he’d either scour the world till he found me and/or like Jacob working his …
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