The first fairytales were feminist critiques of patriarchy. We need to revive their legacy | Melissa Ashley

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The women who created the first fairytales were far more radical than the Brothers Grimm have led us to believe

Most revolutions begin quietly, in narrative. Take, for instance, fairytales. The popular understanding is that fairytales evolved exclusively from oral folktellers – from the uneducated “Mother Goose” nurse, passing into the imaginations of children by centuries of fireside retellings.

 

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That is why I always believed in them.

The Sisters Grimm

Cinderella is a criticism of toxic femininity

Lol I love these spoof Guardian twitter accounts!

EDeathers MrsPink_CamsEng TJN1979 we need to add this to our unit

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So you're saying women were free to write anything they wanted in the past?

Very Eurocentric of you. What you mean is the first stories to use the English word Fairytale comes from a French writers use of Fairies. Whereas tales like Cinderella appear in many countries and are over a thousand years old.

The French are reviving the legacy of Émilie du Châtelet...there is more of a need to realize that both women & men can be equal contributors to literature, science, math, etc.

Don’t worry, the Guardian is renowned for its bullsht..

That’s not what I’m getting from Goldilocks and the 3 bears or the Fox and the Grapes. It’s not a thing.

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