The Horror of Fairy Tales

RosaRainboe wrote: Well maybe the newer versions are to protect kids from the real world.

whats the point of that?

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Gosh kittens ask a parent.

See how they would feel about their kid knowing how the real world is..

Or just wait till you have your kids.

KittensKill wrote:

RosaRainboe wrote: Well maybe the newer versions are to protect kids from the real world.

whats the point of that?

So 3-10yo kids are gonna think the world is perfect, and there is no wrong only right.
And life is a huge fairytale and they're gonna fall in love and have a perfect life
so that when they go out in the real world they're barely going to be able to survive because
of the truly cruel, far from perfect, world we actually live in.

RosaRainboe wrote: To make them think that good things actually happen in life.

Good things DO happen in life.

RosaRainboe wrote: Gosh kittens ask a parent.

See how they would feel about their kid knowing how the real world is..

Or just wait till you have your kids.

Sheltering a child is fail.

The child grows up weak, and without the knowledge of how the world really is.

Classicfall wrote:

RosaRainboe wrote: Gosh kittens ask a parent.

See how they would feel about their kid knowing how the real world is..

Or just wait till you have your kids.

Sheltering a child is fail.

The child grows up weak, and without the knowledge of how the world really is.

sheltering kids too much leads to many problems later.

if a child isn't given access to information, how will they ever learn?

Ummm I don't think fairy tales really influence children THAT much. I watched my fair share of fairy tales but my parents still taught me about life. It seems like everyone in society is blaming tv shows and movies for our children thinking the world is a fairy tale. It's the parents. Come on, if anything its the parents. Fairy tales that aren't filled with gore and don't give children nightmares, are a good thing. I'd rather not have my kid understand what rape is before they can write their own name.

Come on guys, stop making Disney the enemy and stop molding children's movies into horrible things. The youth of today has not been tarnished by Winnie the Pooh.

SnowXwhite wrote: Come on guys, stop making Disney the enemy and stop molding children's movies into horrible things. The youth of today has not been tarnished by Winnie the Pooh.

Brilliantly said. (+1)

SnowXwhite wrote: Ummm I don't think fairy tales really influence children THAT much. I watched my fair share of fairy tales but my parents still taught me about life. It seems like everyone in society is blaming tv shows and movies for our children thinking the world is a fairy tale. It's the parents. Come on, if anything its the parents. Fairy tales that aren't filled with gore and don't give children nightmares, are a good thing. I'd rather not have my kid understand what rape is before they can write their own name.

Come on guys, stop making Disney the enemy and stop molding children's movies into horrible things. The youth of today has not been tarnished by Winnie the Pooh.

It's the parent's AND the fairy-tales combined. I don't have anything against nice fairy-tales.
Hell, I love used to love the Little Mermaid. But when parent's get these little fairy-tales
and show them to their kids, then don't teach them that real life is far from a fairy-tale,
THEN there's a problem. Parent's think their kids need to be sheltered from this world, which is fine,
UNTIL a certain point. Then they NEED to start teaching their kids that life isn't a bowl of cherries
and there IS a lot of suffering and pain in this world. Otherwise, their kids will go out into this world
and be completely shocked by everything, and have to learn the hard way about how bad real life really is.

SnowXwhite wrote: Come on guys, stop making Disney the enemy and stop molding children's movies into horrible things.

its not really what i'd intended the thread be about.

I was really talking about how the original tales have been corrupted by the bros Grimm and Disney.

such is the fate of many of our beloved childhood tales.

tehEmomazingSongwriter17 wrote:
I'm in the mood for some really tragic 'fairytales'
One where the girl isn't good enough for the guy Yet Again
Or one where the guy gets hurt by a girl and realises he should've been with the other one all along.
A bitter, heartbreaking tearjerker. Something very triggering.

Got any like that?

Lifetime

GlassTears wrote:

tehEmomazingSongwriter17 wrote:
I'm in the mood for some really tragic 'fairytales'
One where the girl isn't good enough for the guy Yet Again
Or one where the guy gets hurt by a girl and realises he should've been with the other one all along.
A bitter, heartbreaking tearjerker. Something very triggering.

Got any like that?

Lifetime

Do you mean life in general? Or the Lifetime channel?

tehEmomazingSongwriter17 wrote:

GlassTears wrote:

tehEmomazingSongwriter17 wrote:
I'm in the mood for some really tragic 'fairytales'
One where the girl isn't good enough for the guy Yet Again
Or one where the guy gets hurt by a girl and realises he should've been with the other one all along.
A bitter, heartbreaking tearjerker. Something very triggering.

Got any like that?

Lifetime

Do you mean life in general? Or the Lifetime channel?

Channel

GlassTears wrote:

tehEmomazingSongwriter17 wrote:
I'm in the mood for some really tragic 'fairytales'
One where the girl isn't good enough for the guy Yet Again
Or one where the guy gets hurt by a girl and realises he should've been with the other one all along.
A bitter, heartbreaking tearjerker. Something very triggering.

Got any like that?

Lifetime

Lawlz.