Fairy Tales

This came about because I watched that animated version of Peter and the Wolf that won the Oscar for best animated short this year (it's really good).


I think about fairy tales sometimes, and I realize, when I was a kid, I focused on the wrong things. Stories about damsels in distress made me wary of old women (there was a period where I didn't eat apples for a very long time); they made me think "If I grow my hair long, I'll have a way out of a tower!"; sleeping girls get kissed by princes; being beautiful means you have blond hair; if you have a stepmother, you're screwed.


I realized while watching Peter and the Wolf, another lesson I came away with from fairy tales:


Always chew your food or else it'll escape.




Yeah, I don't think my mind was the intended audience for Fairy Tales.