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Post by General Kenobi on Jan 17, 2018 20:22:43 GMT
So it seems to be that the classic tale and movie Sleeping Beauty is garnering controversy over consent. metro.co.uk/2017/11/23/mother-wants-sleeping-beauty-pulled-from-school-because-it-teaches-bad-lesson-about-consent-7101539/  So does the story teach young boys a bad lesson or are people reading too much into a harmless story? The way I always looked at it the kiss was no different then CPR. It was to save a life, not to assault a harmless woman. No one in their right mind would let someone choke to death because they can't consent to CPR, so why should they complain under similar, albeit more enchanted, circumstances? |
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 17, 2018 21:50:54 GMT
The very original version that pre-dates Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm is pretty offensive in today's culture in which the prince rapes and impregnates the princess in her sleep, in which she awakens to find out she's a mother. The succeeding versions are virtually harmless. There's no way the prince can obtain consent if which the princess is in a deep sleep. Arguing about it is a waste of time and a reason why some of us see political correctness as mind-numbingly frustrating. If you don't like your children reading them, don't have them read. Problem solved.
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Post by ellynmacg on May 6, 2018 19:18:44 GMT
It isn't as though Briar Rose/Aurora is a prom queen sleeping off a binge (or more likely a dose of Rohypnol), with Prince Phillip being a party-hearty, drunken frat boy taking advantage of her while she's blotto! Hello! They already know each other...what was that song and dance in the forest, after all (besides yet another rip-off of Tchaikovsky), other than a getting-to-know-you opportunity? Additionally, Aurora happens to be Phillip's betrothed.
A bunch of posters (including Yours Truly) went through a similar discussion over at YouTube, responding to a (IMO) ridiculous video excoriating Disney over all the horrible, offensive things the studio has--according to the video--perpetrated through the years. The film the vid's narrator held up for the same issue (kissing a woman without her prior consent) was Snow White, but the consensus among the comments was pretty much the same: the prince and the princess already knew each other (also, in this case, the prince thought Snow White was dead, so he was saying "Goodbye"). Therefore the kiss was no big deal.
Both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are fairy tales; date rape is real-life. If a person can't tell the difference between the two, then s/he has problems a whole lot more serious than the interpretation of one scene in a cartoon.
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