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

[odditycollector]

 
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'?

[Poll #263904]

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a while about what Little Red Riding Hood must have really been talking about, when she reported that her Granny had been replaced by a Wolf who wanted to get her into bed and, quote, "eat her up."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...

Comments

[davek.livejournal.com]

I once re-wrote some nursery rhymes so that they were hip and relevant. I don't remember which ones I did, but I remember there being lots of drive-by shootings, and a pimp or two.

I figured it was what the kids would have wanted.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

See, this sounds like my kind of class ;).

I routinely spend about half a class period shocking my students with details from the older versions of fairy tales.

[mark356.livejournal.com]

!!!

What's his LJ name??

I would love to read a paper like that.