Posts Tagged ‘Fairy Tale’

We've all read the wonderful fairy tales of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Snow White.  The stories are all basically the same, beautiful princess meets fabulous prince, some trouble goes on, problem solved, and they live happily ever after.  Even in some of the more modern fairy tales like "Shrek", which has a very strong princess and an albeit not so charming "prince", they lived happily ever after just the same.  But what about girls who don't want to get married?  Where do they fit in?  Are we as a society trying to tell our little girls that there is only one way to live happily ever after?
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