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the thing about “well-behaved women rarely make history" is that the author, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, didn’t write it about women who would be considered “badly-behaved;“ she wrote it in a book about a midwife, about women who had been largely ignored and erased from history because as a result of their “good behaviour.” So it’s not a “BAD GIRLS DO IT WELL" kind of quote; it’s a reminder to respect and pay attention to the women who go about quietly living their lives.

auntjrh

it’s a reminder to respect and pay attention to the women who go about quietly living their lives.

darcy-lewis-blogs

Ooohhhhhh. New take on an old quote. Great context!

petr1kov

You know, one thing i like about Mulan is how Yao, Ling and Chien Po don’t really seem to care about the fact that Mulan is a girl.

I mean, when they find out, they are visibly perplexed

But even so, they rush and try to help her when she’s about to get killed

After this, they all seem quite depressed about having to leave her behind (and when Shang ignores her)

And when she shows up and takes action, they gladly follow her lead

And they even rock some crossdressing, like she did

(btw they just missed a great opportunity to make Shang crossdress here, shame on you movie)

Honestly, i just think this needs more appreciation. Because to them, Mulan didn’t have to prove herself again, just because she is a girl. She already earned their friendship and respect when she was ‘Ping’, and that was enough.

corvidaezero-deactivated2021061

“As the father of no daughters because I’m literally in 8th grade, I think sexual harassment is bad.”

These kid are the future.

the-real-eye-to-see

In 1943, the United States Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that government officials cannot force anyone to participate in patriotic rituals, including the Pledge of Allegiance. No public school employee - no teacher, vice principal, coach, or superintendent - can legally force you to say the Pledge or stand for the Pledge. They also cannot punish you for refusing to participate.

You don’t have to stand for the Pledge.

There needs to be an investigation and replacement of offending teachers and administraion.

aaelfohto

Talk about the past… oops i mean present time

fckyeahprettyafricans

Mogadishu truck bomb: 500 casualties in Somalia’s worst terrorist attack

#prayforSomalia

goldnpoc

Niggas got so much to say about women selling pussy but they wanna dab when future said he “spent a check on that pussy”. Cardi B dance for money so she shouldn’t be a role model, but any rapper that sold drugs to get out of the bad situation they were in “did what they had to do”. Not saying any of those things is the right or wrong thing to do. I’m just saying don’t talk down on one and praise the other.

mydollyaviana

Disney vs. 7 early fairytales

calanthesfeuillemort

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.

maliceandvice-deactivated201512

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.

thestoutorialist

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

archgynoid

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

theroguefeminist

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