What Are Fairy Tales Really Saying

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What Are Fairy Tales Really Saying?

• We use fairy tales to teach young children
  morals however, these fairy tales instill
  negative stereotypes of girls, reinforce racism,
  and expose children to strong sexual innuendos.

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Why I Chose My Topic

• I chose my topic because I was interested in
  finding out whether the rumors of hidden images
  and messages were in fairy tales. I found that
  there was much more than just hidden sexual
  innuendos.

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What is a Fairy Tale?

• Expert opinions- There may be a supernatural or
  magical being, a sort of "fairy substitute,".
  Therefore, stories with genies, ogres, imps,
  wizards, brownies, witches, sorcerers, or fairies
  are all fairy tales.

• My opinion- generally stories of enchantment. A
  fairy tale is typically a story about something
  that would not usually happen in real life, such
  as animals that can talk to humans.

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How Fairy Tales Got Started

• Fairy tales were never meant for children. They
  were originally a form of adult entertainment.

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How Fairy Tales Have Changed

• Changed from hearing them orally, to reading
  them, to watching them.
• Fairy tales have changed, but not entirely.

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How Women Are Negatively Portrayed in Fairy Tales

• Shown as objects
• Only around to serve men
• Women are weak and passive
• Stepmothers are always evil

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What Fairy Tales Are Negatively Portraying Women

• Little Mermaid
• Mulan
• Shrek
• Sleeping Beauty
• Hansel and Gretel
• Cinderella

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Little Mermaid Song Lyrics

• Poor Unfortunate Souls
• But without my voice, how can I..
• You'll have your looksYour pretty faceAnd
  don't underestimate the importance ofBody
  language, Ha!
• The men up there don't like a lot of blabberThey
  thing a girl who gossips is a boreYes, on land
  it's much preferredFor ladies not to say a
  wordAnd after all, dearWhat is idle prattle
  for?
• Come onThey're not all that impressed with
  conversationTrue gentlemen avoid it when they
  canBut they dote and swoon and fawnOn a lady
  who's withdrawnIt's she who holds her tongueWho
  gets her man

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Mulan Song Lyrics

• Girl Worth Fighting For
• I want her paler than themoon with eyes
  thatshine like starsMy girl will marvel atmy
  strength, adore mybattle scarsI couldn't care
  less what she'llwear or what she looks likeIt
  all depends on whatshe cooks likeBeef, pork,
  chickenMmm
• My girl will think I have no faultsThat I'm a
  major findHow 'bout a girl who's got a brainWho
  always speaks her mind?Nah!

• Honor to Us All
• A girl can bring her familygreat honor in one
  wayBy striking a good matchAnd this could be
  the day
• Men want girls with good tasteCalmObediantWho
  work fast-pacedWith good breedingAnd a tiny
  waistYou'll bring honor to us all
• We all must serve our EmperorWho guards us from
  the HunsA man by bearing armsA girl by bearing
  sons

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• Shrek
• Refers to Snow White as a slut
• Sleeping Beauty
• Sleeping Beauty is raped by prince
• Hansel and Gretel
• Hansel has to come up with the ideas to keep him
  and his sister safe
• Cinderella
• Has to wait for the princely rescue
• Stereotypical stepmother

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How Racism is Instilled in Fairy Tales

• Racial Slurs
• Upsetting lyrics in opening of Aladdin
• Stereotypes
• Racial stereotyping of hyenas in Lion King

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Aladdin Lyrics

• Original first verse (1992-93)
• Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
• Where the caravan camels roam
• Where they cut off your ear
• If they don't like your face
• It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
• New verse
• Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
• Where the caravan camels roam
• Where it's flat and immense
• And the heat is intense
• It's barbaric, but hey, it's home

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Fairy Tales with Racism

• Lion King

• Aladdin

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Sexual Innuendos Hidden in Fairy Tales

• Sex
• Nudity
• Hidden messages
• Hidden images

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Fairy Tales That Have Hidden Sexual Innuendos

• Lion King
• Aladdin
• Rescuers Down Under
• Little Mermaid

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How the Lion King Classifies as a Fairy Tale

• The Lion King classifies as a fairy tale because
  the animals can speak to each other and we as
  humans can understand them.

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Frame of Lion King

• In a scene in the Lion King Simba lies in the
  grass and dandelions float up and the letters SEX
  can be seen in the stars.

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SEX in Stars Broken into Separate Frames
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Aladdin

• In a scene in Aladdin you can hear Aladdin say,
  Take off your clothes.

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Rescuers Flying Through the City
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Priest Getting Aroused in Little Mermaid

• Disney denied the claims of his erection and
  claimed it was only his knee.

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Suggestive Cover

• One of the towers on the castle closely resembles
  a phallic symbol.

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Final Thoughts

• My opinion on what children should hear
• Questions and Answers

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Works Cited

• Yee, Kevin. Disney Urban Legends www.snopes.com.
  November 17, 2003.