i made an animation.
disney films and fairy tales in general - these are the films we watched as children (children nowadays are brought up with rastamouse and such others, proving that society has learnt it's lesson and there is hope for the future) but what were WE being taught when we were young and susceptible? the evil queen in the story of snow white - striving for youth and beauty by looking towards her mirror and asking "who is the fairest of them all?" when the mirror responds that snow white is indeed the fairest of them all, the invidious queen seeks revenge upon snow white and tries to kill the young beautiful woman, so that she remains the fairest of them all. blah blah blah so on and so forth until snow white is placed in the glass coffin by her seven dwarfs until her handsome prince comes and awakens her with true loves kiss - when she wakes, they, of course get married and live happily ever after - hurray! (morning breath?!) if only every romance was that easy, snow white was a fool to rush into that marriage.
the point i'm trying to establish here, is that all beautiful princesses don't seem to have much of a say in whom they marry in these tales and appear to wait around for men to come and 'save them' - damsel in distress/trapped in the tower of loneliness/waiting to marry, and all evil queens, witches, step-mothers, well that's self explanatory really - where are all the evil kings, wizards and step-fathers? probably trying to find a vulnerable princess to smooch, that's where.
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