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A Fairytale Come True
A real-life story about why cancel culture is right to go after Snow White’s kiss.
It’s time to be honest with myself, and tell the story about a situation that traumatized me.
This week, an article about Disneyland in SFGATE went so viral it even reached my friends in Argentina. The article, about Disneyland’s reopening and the problem of consent in Snow White’s kiss, made my feminist friends rejoice and my sexist Argentinian acquaintances (can’t really call them friends, for obvious reasons) go crazy.
“Cancel culture has gone too far,” they say. “Feminists are ridiculous,” some of them post. “How can a fairytale offend you? Is there no place for a true love’s kiss anymore?”
True love? As Julie Tremaine and Katie Dowd write in SFGATE, it’s “a kiss he gives to her without her consent, while she’s asleep, which cannot possibly be true love if only one person knows it’s happening.” But people still don’t see why this lack of consent in a children’s story could be triggering, or wrong.
So let me tell you a fairytale.
Once upon a time in a kingdom far, far away, an innocent young girl participated in a ball at the queen’s castle.
