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ban villains rule (lemmy.world)
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[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, you missed the point.

The objective of Grimm fables is not to make kids feel good, nor to scare them, really. It's to prepare them for the real world.

Red Riding Hood is not a story about kids being eaten by wolves. It's a story about teaching kids that there are adults in the world who want to harm them. Adults who will make themselves appear non-threatening in order to lure those kids into harm.

What OOP implies here is that by removing elements of children's stories that make us uncomfortable is exactly working against the morals and purpose of those stories.

[-] mokus 4 points 2 months ago

As an autistic child I never understood those dimensions of the story anyway. I am literally realizing them right now in my 40s upon reading your comment. Instead, I learned those life lessons because my parents told them to me directly.

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Ah, same. My parents were neurodivergent and very blunt with life lessons, too. Neurotypicals have that kind of "beat around the bush" "don't say the quiet part out loud" "guide them to water" type of attitude I think.

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