You’re gonna be reading a lot about the new “live action” Snow White movie and about how the old version promoted sexual aggression (maybe even necrophilia😱) so I just thought Id set ya straight.
Ive read so much about folklore over the years that I can’t separate out my sources. (I think mostly Marina Warner, in connection with this.) But here’s the thing: in the original oral versions of the “fairy stories” that Disney made into movies, the “happily ever after” wasn’t finding true love. It was finally getting enough to eat! Like, in Little Red Riding Hood when the Huntsman slit the wolf open, it wasn’t Grandma who emerged, it was a plethora of—sausages! An all-you-can-eat buffet, a feast beyond the wildest dreams of the perpetually hungry peasant folk! And that woulda been the main point about attracting the attention of a handsome prince: Cinderella would never be hungry again!
In the original Snow White tales, just as she is done in because she can’t resist the poisoned apple, so she is “awakened” not by a kiss, but when the henchmen of the handsome prince, who has asked the dwarves if he can take the body to give her a decent funeral, stumble with the glass coffin and dislodge the poisoned apple from her throat.
it was Disney which saccharined up these tales by elevating romantic love as the reward for the hero/heroine’s virtue and patience, when originally the reward was FOOD in abundance.
These days, with most young women having become so gargantuanly fat, maybe the original versions would once again resonate more strongly than the re-makes.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Hypatia, you are a treasure. I really wonder though, why so many young people are so overweight? Is it some chemical reaction to new vaccines, or something? In the working class town I grew up in, no one was rich, but we were blessed to always be able to eat when we wanted as much as we wanted, and hardly anybody was overweight, or if they were, not by much, and usually not for very long. I just cannot believe that this problem is caused by people suddenly eating more. Back in the day, there were always one or a couple of people who were seriously overweight, but they were a tiny minority. What in the world is going on?
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I cannot fathom it! My BMD says being fat is in style now, and that must be partly true because these girls LIKE themselves that way. You can’t fake that.
And you can’t say it’s cuz their parents were afraid to say anything about it to ‘em as little children: one, because a lot of the manatees I know were waif like little girls back in grade school; , and two, because I DID ruthlessly make fun of fat people and of my daughter’s fat friends (I mean, to her, not to their faces) and it seems to have had no effect. She was home this month and had a buncha girl friends visiting. I was scared they’d break the porch furniture.
Full, plus-size disclosure: I am not now nor have I ever been thin, and I suffered terribly for it at various times, but next to them I felt sylph-like. At least I have a discernible waist. I wondered whether, if I lived among them, I would get really fat, too? Would I give up my constant struggle to look (as I always put it to myself)”decent”?
But I agree with you, this much fat doesn’t seem just like occasional or unintentional overindulgence. How do they maintain, nay, increase, their poundage? Is there an epidemic of secret binge eating, bulimia without the purging? If so why ?
One of the mysteries of the generations, I reckon, which I will go to my grave pondering.
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That is what is most disturbing about this: the whole “fat acceptance” thing. It’s so delusional. How can they be so delusional? There have been times in my life when I struggled with my weight. I get that. I cannot comprehend how anyone can be over 200 or even 300 pounds in some cases, and view it as a positive experience. It’s similar in a way to the delusion some young people have that they can change their sex.
I read a book by Scott Peck who was a psychologist: decades ago, before all this madness started. He said that he tried to work with severely overweight people at least several times, but he was never able to help them. He said that in his experience, very very very fat people-not just chubby, not just overweight, but truly obese people have a hard time coming to terms with reality, in all kinds of ways not related to their weight. He said that he just didn’t know how to help them.
Between fat acceptance and gender ideology, it is very concerning. Why do so many young people find reality so difficult? How can we help them?
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Send them to Thailand to work on coffee farms. Can we still say coffee plantations in 2023?
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We visited Disney many times in Florida and California. So much fatty food there . But we saw these on TV Let’s follow our blogs. Anita
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Welcome, 100 Country Trek! You sound European 🙂 Or at least, not American, if you noticed the fatty food. 🙂 My late husband came from Scotland, and when his mother visited America, she was shocked by the huge portions served in restaurants. Of course, many of us rarely or never eat everything on the plate, at least not in one sitting. We either take it home or throw it out. Just because they put it in front of you, doesn’t mean that you have to eat all of it, all at once 🙂
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Can you follow my site ?
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Some of us were perpetually hungry back in the and many of our fathers refused to go on “assistance.” Times were different.
I think much of the problem in the US is because so much of the diet is now processed food and loaded to the gills with artificial sugars.
See: fructose/ sucrose.
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Bless you, Simon, and Bless all of our fathers!
I don’t know if I buy the diet argument. When I was a kid, we ate processed food and no end of junk like crazy, and we were almost all very thin. Even now, I eat a lot of junk, and while I could probably lose 10 or 15 pounds, I just don’t get how so many people can become morbidly obese all at the same time. One or two people here or there with an eating disorder and/or a bad metabolism: Ok. Half the U.S. population?
It is heartbreaking. It’s one thing to become a little chubby after having a few kids, or reaching middle age: us older people have had our day. Young people are supposed to be at the peak of their beauty. To spend those precious years being morbidly obese? It makes me weep.
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Egads and little fishes!
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