Cinderella Stereotypes

When you think of a fairytale you initially might think of a damsel in distress and a great knight ready to battle the wicked witch to save her. However, there is more to each story than pure amusement. Each in their own way I waiting to mold young minds by teaching simple morals in a way that they can understand. Yet, by reading a politically correct version of Cinderella, it removes the simple educational values that the original portrays. For being a politically correct story it portrays humans is nothing but animals unable to control their actions. We will address couple of stereotypes that this story reinforces. The first stereotype is that man is nothing but an animal and cannot control their desires. In this version of Cinderella women are only considered sexual objects for man’s amusement. When Cinderella walks into the ball dressed to the nines in revealing clothing, the men begin to behave badly. The Prince starts to fight his cohorts in order to win supremacy and ultimately take Cinderella for himself. All of the men act as if they are simply devolved wild animals fighting for the right to mates with the most eligible female. Are women only on this planet to satisfy a man’s sexual lust? Well, according to this version of Cinderella we are. In the beginning of the politically correct version of
This story doesn’t do anything to help teach a moral objective to our children. The politically correct Cinderella only continues stereotypes and degrades our traditional values by perpetrating humans as nothing more than hormonal animals. It teaches our children that lying and blackmail is all right. At least in the original version of Cinderella taught that good will always triumph over evil and that love can happen in the most unlikely ways. I leave you with this food for thought if our fairytales no longer convey a basic moral understanding then will our children have a true moral