Women's Lit: Disney by auntietk
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WOMEN'S LIT: DISNEY
Disney has a lot to answer for
Snow White
Kept house for
Seven dwarfs
Happily
Cooked and cleaned
Washed their clothes
Picked up after them
(Personally
That's always been my dream ...
To clean for seven bachelors)
In the end
She left with a man
She'd never met before
Which is
Always a good idea
Cinderella
Tolerated abuse
Never spoke up
Smiled
Played with mice
She was saved
At the last minute
By her fairy godmother
(Where had this woman BEEN
All that time?)
I'm sure it turned out fine
After all
The prince
Was a wonderful dancer!
Ariel
Not happy where she was
(Although most teenagers
Are perfectly happy
Living with their parents)
Mooning over
A pretty face
At age sixteen
She changed
Her very nature
Forever
I wonder if she was happy
Living with a man
Who thought it was okay
That she became
Something she was not
In order to be with him
Belle
Loved the beast
For who he was
No matter how he looked
Or if his poor behavior
Had put him on that path
In the first place
(Refusing shelter
Locking people up
Being coercive)
In the end
Her love was his magic
And he changed for her
(Oh yes
Men change
It happens all the time)
Is this really
What you want to teach
Your daughters?
Become someone different
From who you really are
Clean the house
Wear pretty shoes
Wait until someone saves you
From whatever it is
You think you need saving from
Good looking men are princes
Who will sweep you off your feet
Men will change for you
If you love them enough
Come again?
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Comments (20)
jocko500
all farie tells for sure. got wisdom for the real world? wonderful work
Faemike55
Excllent questions and comments! Well done! of course it also gives the guys a misconception that women will do all those things as well.... then reality stirkes hard and fast, some of us actually learn, others though, never learn. Me - I learned.
durleybeachbum
HILARIOUS, Tara! a brilliant piece of work! ('Course, it's not really Disneys fault, he just perpetuated folk tales and myths already made up by antique MEN!)
elfin14doaks
Really good point!!!!!!!!!!
flavia49
excellent!
elfin12u
I mean no offense with this, and agree with your sentiments. The thing that I've noticed most among the differences between the two genders is this. A guy will enter a relationship with a gal thinking that "she" will never change. A gal will enter one thinking that "he" will. The fact is (generally speaking), that they're both wrong!! A man might change,.....but that usually comes about at the end of a relationship, where he's come to the realization that he simply has no choice. The problem with this, is that by the time he's finally arrived at this conclusion, she's already emotionally moved on. Too little, too late!!
beachzz
Role models---and the boys learn it's all just fine. Fine writing, full of wise words, sure to make people think. At least, I sure hope so!!
TallPockets
TERRIFIC written piece and point of view!! Old DUMB TallPockets has FIVE lovely SISTERS he'd DIE for. HE has told them MANY times over to NOT cook, NOT clean, NOT have sex with hubby and WE MEN? would be SOON crawling on hands and knees. WINK. However, YOU ladies seem to ALLOW said men? to continue this life pattern? I've never understood that. GRIN. (IF you're ever BORED, check out my IN THE BEGINNINGS written work in my gallery here - SMILE). WRITE on, KIND SOUL! My BEST to you and yours, TallPockets.
helanker
YES.........you are right :-)
Merrylee
Fantastic writing...Me being with a man for 35 yrs. and seeing other men...it's frighting...what a world Tara
lucindawind
oh my this is fabulous !! :)
barbdennist
This should be required reading of all 8 year old girls.
Chipka
These, and numerous other reasons are why I almost violently despise Disney. I won't even go into the racism at the core of Dumbo. But I digress...this SHOULD be required reading, not just for girls, but for boys...and ANYONE who can read. But, on the flipside of that, Soviet-Era "Cheburashka" gives Disney quite the ideological "whuppin'" it deserves, and Cheburashka is far more sophisticated and cute than anything Disney ever came up with. But that's a HUGE digression, all circling around the fact that I love the elegant, incendiary precision of this piece.
hipps13
I sit and stare with thought no words seem to come but so much I do read wonderful work warm hugs, Linda Kaye
Meisiekind
ROFLMAO!!!! Oh dear Tara - what wonderful prose... How true is that... Fairy tale my .... nevermind! I agree with Chip - this should be required reading by both sexes!!!! Well done dear friend! :)
ontar1
Fantastic idea and presentation, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
danapommet
Well Tara, this has got to be the best satire that I have read in a long time. You rock! Dana
SusiQ
Hmmmmm, Corruption of the youth methinks Is the focal point today Push and pull them till they crack And then watch what they say. Bravo, AuntieTK. I wish that Disney would read this and revise their older fairy tales. Although looking at the current offerings - Hannah Montana, High School Musical etc... They might be changing their views already?
anahata.c
LOL, I loved this when you posted it, and love it now. And it's not just about disney but all the myth makers that create the image of the patient, waiting woman, holding onto her man while he goes out and battles dragons and pretty much treats her like s___. I wrote a tale about Rapunzel where the Prince says, "Let down your hair!" So she does—and it buries half of Europe. After tons of people dig their way out of a 9-million ton braid, she says, "that good enough for ya???" She then withdraws her hair (which tosses half of France in a heap), and writes in her diary: "I may be stuck in this tale, but I'm damned if it's gonna ruin me." And she walks out, her hair in a pony tail (which knocks down a few Alps, btw) and starts a new life. Disney gave those age old myths big innocent faces. (And, I may be skewered for saying this, but this site has its share of those faces, in some 3D galleries...) Well written with your usual sensitivity to the stanza, dividing your thoughts beautifully and using your usual brevity of words for power. Fine piece, and you always mix in humor too...
drace68
Well-crafted, selective, feminist screed. Good writing. Thank you for the slant-warning in your post's title.