"There's someone at the door!" "Is it the pizza boy?" "No, Granny. It's a big, strong woodcutter..."

 
So I have a friend who's writing an English essay on how to turn Fairy Tales into porn.

 
Well okay, no. Not quite exactly that, but I'm still disturbed. I mean, does the world really need an essay titled 'Underlying Sexuality in Common Children's Tales'?

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He goes on for a while about what Little Red Riding Hood must have really been talking about, when she reported that her Granny had been replaced by a Wolf who wanted to get her into bed and, quote, "eat her up." Uh-huh. And Cinderella? Apparently the only way that story might have been more obvious was if it had been the Prince who had lost his slipper, and Cinderella had gone around to every man in the kingdom checking his, er, fit.

("So, what did you think," said he, grinning madly.
"At least you didn't mention Freud," said I.
"Oh," he said. "Well, I haven't got to Goldilocks yet."
"And the bed was too hard," snickered I.
"Hmm," said he. "Veeery Eenteresting...")

 
My God people! Corrupting childhood memories as a proper University assignment? Have we no shame!

You can think of an answer, and I'll just be over here reading Carebear slash...

GIP, etc.

I'm not really sure why I thought that should be an icon, but I'm sure I'll manage.

Anyway.

I'm kinda surprised at how the poll in my last post turned out. I mean, okay, I thought it would be funny to ask a question one might have to read twice (This says pretty much everything you need to know about my sense of humour.), but only 1 of 10 people who answered (and weren't me) said that the world needs essays sexually deconstructing* fairy tales.

...

So then, who are you people, and what did you do to the regular guys who used to come around?

 
 
*No, I have no real idea if that's what sexually deconstructing means.