Chuckle of the morning

[autographedcat]

Heard on NPR this morning, in a discussion about notions of beauty in fairy tales (slightly paraphrased from memory):

In a Grimm's tale, when a women was called beautiful meant she was docile, domesticated, subservient--quite often comatose...."
--Jack Zipes, folklorist

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

LOL - too true, that :)

[delennara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, taht is much like children beiing SOOOO CUTE, looking like ANGELS when they sleep.
Then they awake and you have some little devils.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a great interview? I loved the stuff he said about how peasant folk tales paint their heroines as much more resourceful and powerful than the middle- and upper-class tales collected by the Bros. Grimm.