In general, the Irish version of everything is more awesome.

Yup. As a dad of a boy and a girl, the old princesses are basically garbage in terms of characters for your kids.

Oh yes- Prince Charming was in the same fraternity as Brock Turner- They pray on drunk women or women under the spell of a witch...

How dare she use this most sacred text as a teaching moment to explain consent to her daughter?! The nerve!

If you’re in an office hallway you are likely salaried, and you can take a “bio break” any time you feel the need. Not so true for hourly production line workers. Signed, 40 year salaried worker.

Cinderella is very much a cipher for the gender politics of the period. In the 1950's America, it was the cult of domesticity revival, having her being rewarded for her loyal domestic subservience with a more benign domestic overlord. In the 1930's Jewish diaspora, it was about balancing familial piety with…

The sad part is that you don’t recognize your privilege. This person can't stroll down the hall to the toilet whenever they want.

This is a good take.

Well the Prince said the kiss never happened and there were 7 dwarfs in the home who didn’t see anything. Dopey was wasted and his main bro Judgey doesn’t even remember this Snow White chick at all. 

Everyone should be reading the Irish version of the story, where Lasair Gheug joins a group of cat bandits (after going on the run because her stepmother frames her for murder) and helps break the cats’ curse so they turn back into humans. And then she marries the chief former cat who is actually a prince. Then her…

What should, but probably will not, be part of the investigation:

chancellor puddinghead explains it above, but in short the original doesn’t have a kiss. in a far more hilarious twist, they just drop her apparent corpse on the ground, which knocks the apple loose and she randomly wakes up

It’s like how conservative parents were super confused about gays and marriage equality. “Two men kissing? How will I ever explain that to my children?” The same way you ought to be doing with everything else. Discussions with your children are a vital part of good parenting.

As a devoted uncle to my two beautiful nieces (aged 3 1/2 & 7), one of my biggest concerns I’ve shared with my sister, is the outdated and inaccurate social and gender roles portrayed, and often gobbled up by youths and parents alike, that these classic and even more modern (though not all) Disney films seem to anchor…

Per the article, she’s talking about a story she read to her kids, not the Disney movie. Obviously we have no way of knowing the plot of that story - in the original fairy tale they never met before the kiss, but I think most modern adaptations have them fall in love beforehand.

Let’s all imagine how apt a comment that would have been if this had actually contained anything about her complaining about how difficult it is being her. As it is, just dull-witted boilerplate “lol celebs should stfu” sludge, apparently written in reflex to a celebrity’s name being in the headline and nothing else.

You know, that’s true - I had never thought of that before. I mean Snow White is there, basically rufied into a coma and a guy comes along and kisses her? If the guy was drunk at the time it would have been “Prince Brett” that did it...

“I have to go to work to earn a living.”

Of course you’d come in here with apologies and excuses for non-consent. Of course. 

The same way you get permission from a drunk person: