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[lyssie]

Did you know that if you read fairy tales as a child, you're more likely to be passive in a relationship?

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=2&u=/afp/20050422/sc_afp/sciencebritainwomen_050422114707

Dear god. What will they think of next?

Comments

[million-moments.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the number of fridges owned in America went up in an almost perfect linear reletionship with the number of homicides.

Statistics and studies are so amusing.

Re: Fairytales

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

What if you read fairy tales, science fiction, psychology texts, anatomy books, user manuals and romances?

[suaine.livejournal.com]

You know what it means when her senior scholars say that the material merits more resaerch? That the study is somehow flawed and needs to be re-evaluated before they can actually say for sure what's up with that whole thing.

Now, to me it sounds like one of those studies that people do when they already know what they want it to say and try to find evidence supporting this. Interestingly, the original Fairy Tales probably don't have that effect, what we're talking about here are the romanticized Disney-esque versions.

The thing is, I would probably support the idea that early conditioning with overly romantic tales promoting the 50s-style gender roles has an effect on girls later in life, but I'd look at the whole Hollywood romantic comedy genre first before I went after fairy tales.

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

yet another reason to read Kissing the Witch instead of the usual fairy tales, not that I needed one.

[sandra47.livejournal.com]

we should really be reading to children the real fairy tales as they were first written. Cause they were originally meant for adults. And they werent all sweetness and light and happy endings...

Now that'll scare the crap outta them :) lol

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

Did you know that if you watched Doctor Who as a chile, you're more likely to develop a cheap rubber fetish in a relationship?

[drake57.livejournal.com]

LOL :)

[karma-aster.livejournal.com]

...Beauty and the Beast is still my favorite fairy tale. I always thought the heroine was a strong woman who learned to look past external things and to trust in her own abilities.

Apparently it was about domestic violence the whole time?

*looks amused*

[nique.livejournal.com]

The fact that my favorite fairytales were The Little Matchstick Girl and Godfather Death prolly explains a lot about me, in that case...

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Omg, Little Mermaid - the real version vs. the disney version - traumatized me for life. *laughs*

[kataclysmic.livejournal.com]

Wrote an essay on sexuality in fairytales last term; some of the feminism criticism was ridiculous.

[daisycm83.livejournal.com]

Love fairytales, actually. Collect all sorts of them. It's sort of my geeky way of looking at anthropology and saying "huh". But...not passive. At all. Ask my ex. But then, my math professor used to say you can basically make a study say whatever the hell you want if you do it right. Which is why I no longer pay attention to statistics of any kind, because she proceeded to then teach us how to.

[drake57.livejournal.com]

Hmmm i read sci-fi and horror as a child,i wonder what that makes me? :)

[livilla.livejournal.com]

Oh for crying out loud... *headdesk*

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

I've been called a LOT of things, but 'passive' ain't one of them.

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