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Disney vs. 7 early fairytales

The 1812 version of Snow White is even worse when you consider that the girl was only seven years old in the tale (plus her unconscious body ended up being carted around by the prince until one of his servants accidentally woke her up). Also, in The Little Mermaid, the mermaid’s unable to speak because she had her tongue cut out >__<

But I’d love to see faithful adaptations of the original tales. Especially Bluebeard. We need a Bluebeard adaptation.

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Actually, the original-original pre-Grimm Brothers’ stories that were passed around Europe via oral tradition are nowhere near as violent as the Grimm’s made them. Cinderella’s stepsisters were never ugly and kept their eyes, Snow White’s mother was not even a villain (instead a group of bandits were), and instead of spending the whole story napping Sleeping Beauty outwitted a dangerous bandit leader, wouldn’t let him sleep with her, and saved herself.

The original oral stories were radically changed by the Brothers Grimm to fit their personal and political beliefs. Most notably, they often added in female characters solely for the purpose of making them evil villains and took away most of the heroines’ agency and intelligence. Both brothers belonged to a small fanatical sect of Catholicism that vilified women because of the idea of Original Sin and Wilhelm in particular had a particularly deep hatred of women. The Grimms were actually pretty horrible people. Those cannibalistic queens and ugly stepsisters and the mass amount of violence against women didn’t exist until the Grimms wanted them to. Their ideas stuck so soundly though that we now assume they were in the original tales and that these terrible characters and ideas come out of some perceived barbaric Old World culture. But in truth they’re really the Grimms’ weird obsession with hating women showing through. The original oral folklore focused on the heroes’ and heroines’ good deeds and used them as ways to teach cultural norms and a society’s rules and encouraged girls to be quick-witted and street-savvy instead of passive princesses, and the Grimms promptly stripped that all away.

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“Grimms Bad Girls and Bold Boys” by Ruth Bottingheimer is an excellent book on this

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We had to read The Book of Lost Things for school and it’s Grimm level crazy

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Not only that, you’re skipping out a really important thing: the brother’s grimm got those tales from WOMEN, women were the ones who would tell these tales orally and the brother’s grimm took them, altered them to be sexist and never gave the women credit. You can read Clever Maids the Secret History The Grimm Fairytales for more info

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reblogging for the excellent commentary

How did I not know about Shantaram? A friend told me about it, and he was surprised that I called myself a bibliophile but had never heard of Shantaram. The title sounded foreign to me but when I went to Goodreads to find out more about it, it had a score of 4.27; mostly ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

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HOW TO REMOVE PESKY STICKERS FROM YOUR BOOKS (contains naughty words)

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THIS IS A PSA.

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This is important

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This book is the shit

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Happy π Day!

The fourteenth of March is commonly known as Pi Day, as 3.14 are the first three digits of π. On this day, mathematicians and pie enthusiasts alike gather to celebrate circular desserts and numerical perfection.

Whilst indulging our love of pie, we’re also celebrating by sharing some facts about one of the most interesting numbers in mathematics, π.

π is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — and regardless of the size of a circle, this number will remain constant.

Pi represents an ancient Babylonian and Greek pursuit to understand the symmetry and dimensions of a circle.

Pi is classified as an irrational universal constant. This means the digits in pi would go on forever without falling into a repetitive pattern.

The Greek letter π as the symbol for pi was popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in the 1700s.

The Rhind Papyrus shows the first attempt at calculating pi by “squaring the circle”, a method to calculate the area of a circle by building a square inside the circle.

Gif by Spoon Fork Bacon via Giphy.