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Considering the current culture of "canceling" child books (in this case nearly 200 years old) this will be interesting.

• oaiey 6y ago
  I would love a modern version of them were evil is a bit better distributed and not always a woman, the savior is not always a young handsome prince and the reward a wedding. As a white guy re-reading them with my daughters I find them boring and stereotypical. There are many modern versions but they are also often based on the Disney edition. From a German perspective book cancelling (burning) is an incredible dangerous road. We had that in our history once and its lead to nothing good. Create better ones and advocate them. Disney did that, just, in a bit too American style (oh-my-god-my-kid-cannot-hear-this-word-or-see-a-boob). That is the road.
  • masswerk 6y ago
    Fun fact: This is already the redacted, modern version. E.g., evil mothers (apparently a theme in the folktales of the time) became stepmothers. The original version was even more harsh, or grim.
    • goto11 6y ago
      I'm not sure it is possible to speak about the "original version" when it comes to folk tales which exist in a variety of versions. It may also be due to modern prejudice we consider the most brutal versions the most authentic. For example the Charles Perrault collections are much older than the Grimm collections, but does not have the same amount of maiming. Perraut modified the stories to contemporary sensibilities - but so did the Grimm brothers.