Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Fairy tales support white male supremacy


Thanks to fairy tales women are inadvertently raising their daughters as slaves to white male supremacy. I am fascinated by how little thought goes into fairy tales that we traditionally love reading to our your young daughters. We never seem to think about what the underlining message in each of these myths is and how it is fashioning the minds of young girls.

If you get over that oh-its-so-romantic stage and start to evaluate these myths with a critical feminist eye, you start to realise just how sexist and racist these so called innocent fairy tales are.

Lets take a look at Cinderella, probably one of the most famous and well known of fairy tales. For those who ask "how is this sweet romantic story suppose to be sexist and racist?"
I would say, rather ask the question "how is it not?"

Lets take a brief look at the story. Our heroin is a young girl who is clearly pure of heart. What self respecting mother would not want a daughter like that. Problem here is, she is all so door mat. She is weak and unable to do much about the abuse she receives from her step mother and sisters.

This is already sending out a clear message. Good girls are door mats. Girls will grow-up believing they must treat men with respect, while it is perfectly acceptable for men to treat them as badly as they like. Good girls must just accept this abuse and carry on being submissive.

I have always found it both interesting and disturbing that the antagonists in fairy tales are always female. They are usually evil witches or family members.
In this case they are the evil step mother and sisters. When you look at stats concerning abuse, this scene would be far more realistic if it was an evil step father and brothers. But that cant happen in fairy tales because in fairy tales men are always the good guys. The powerful white male always comes at the end and saves the poor girl from all these evil females and even from herself because she is just too weak and pathetic to do anything for herself.

This kind of message is clearly making young girls believe that their biggest enemy is not boys or men even if these boys and men are abusive but in actual fact girls.

A girl must believe that males are her saviours while females want to mistreat her and oppress her.

One of the reasons why white male supremacy as well as male supremacy is so strong, is because women are so divided. They are more concerned with watching each other then keeping focused on the real problem i.e. male supremacy.

Of course there is the fairy god mother who helps Cinderella. But what is she really helping Cinderella do? Males see women and girls as property and sex objects. The fairy god mother is helping Cinderella become the property and and sex toy of the prince who is the mighty white male who rules the land. The prince only becomes interested in her because of her looks. And then goes hunting for her so he can bag her and bring her back to his palace where she will serve him as his property and satisfy his sexual urges.

We need to get these types of sexist and racist stories out of circulation. It is time feminists started creating feminist fairy tales. Ones that teach young girls about the dangers of male supremacy and at the same time inspire them to take a stand against it.

If it was up to me, Cinderella would be living with her evil step father and brothers, this would demonstrate to young girls what male supremacy results in. The fairy god mother would be a radical feminist who would also be leader of a militant feminist movement who's aim would be to totally destroy male supremacy. She would inspire and help Cinderella to deal effectively with the evil males in her life. Like beating the shit out of them.

As a collective they would would overthrow the racist and sexist prince. Take over the land and destroy all forms of sexism and racism.

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