So let me get this straight:
This queen has a (technically genderless) magic mirror, and every day, she asks it/him “Who is the fairest of them all,” or “Who is the most beautiful person in the land?”
All it does is answer honestly. Now, because this is a fairy tale, we’re just going to accept that the mirror can answer an objective standard of beauty, even though what is beautiful for one person or another can be entirely arbitrary.
This was all fine and good until the Mirror simply told her it was another girl and not her, who was the Fairest of Them All™. It told her nothing else, and upon that, the Queen (named Grimhild, by the way, even Disney canon barely seems to acknowledge her real name) decides to send a hunter to cut the girl’s heart out and bring it to her in a box. This was never something the mirror told her to do, this was her own idea, based solely on the fact that some girl was prettier than her.
If this woman is competent and smart enough to rule a kingdom, she is competent and smart enough to be responsible for her own actions, and that includes trying to murder someone for her own vanity. The Mirror only told her what she asked it, she could’ve chosen not to care what the mirror said. No one was forcing her to send an assassin or poison a little girl (Snow White is 13 in the original tale…imagine being that petty you attempt murder on a teenager because she’s prettier than you).
Fuck you, Cracked, Queen Grimhild is the villain and you are not pinning the actions of a vain, murderous woman on The Patriarchy.
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