Cinderella

Thank you, Disney for ruining a new generation of young girls and future women with your lies and unrealistic expectations that only leads to disappointments. Thank you, Disney for once again teaching the young and impressionable girls that "a man" will come and save the day. Thank you, Disney for teaching young boys that they have to save the day and feeling vulnerable is not part of being a man. Thank you, Disney for not instilling in young people a sense of interdependence or the fact they have to ability to change and take control of their future. But really no thanks, I would not like this to be taught to my future children and certainly not happy that my young cousin loved every moment if it.

Oh how have the times not changed, a story of a sad and helpless young woman being oppressed by an evil stepmother, driven to "slavery" by simply doing chores. Falls haplessly in love with a man she met once. Let's for a moment believe that two people have that much chemistry or whatever you may wish to call it and do at first sight fall in love, does the story end here? The sad truth it does not and that is what Cinderella fails to teach young children. Children may not need to have taken their innocence away by the harsh reality of truth however blatantly lying to them is not doing them any good either. We need to teach our children in hope, courage, kindness but we also need to teach them that with light comes darkness. We need to teach them resilience and strength to take on the world even when we fail.

I know the effects that Cinderella has on children. Because I am the result of that product, a child feed with dreams of unrealistic expectations of myself and of others. And from those lessons we learnt as children we bring to our adult lives and realise in bitterness that the things we thought we knew were never true anyway.

So thank you Disney for your irresponsibility!