Chuckle of the morning
Jul. 6th, 2004 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
autographedcatHeard 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
In a Grimm's tale, when a women was called beautiful meant she was docile, domesticated, subservient--quite often comatose...."
--Jack Zipes, folklorist
