content warning: talks about fairy tales<\/p>\n
fairy tale heroes fall to fairy tale morals:
\nthe past seems to preach
\nof docile women and their rescuing men.
\nbut cinderella wasn’t docile –
\nshe chose kindness above cruelty,
\nand though she couldn’t drag herself
\nfrom the ashes of the fire
\nshe was still able to wave that white flag.<\/p>\n
and in the original story of rapunzel
\nafter the prince falls from the tower
\nshe escapes on her own,
\nand cries for him to give him salvation.
\njust because these stories
\nhave standards of a different time
\ndoes not mean they were never heroes.<\/p>\n
it was not damsels in distress,
\nwith princes on white horses,
\nbut strong, stubborn women
\nwho kept to their morals.
\nsnow white talked to the huntsman,
\nwho was so moved by her story,
\nthat he lied to the queen he feared and loved.<\/p>\n
and sleeping beauty may have fallen to a curse,
\none to only awaken with a kiss,
\nbut she was the one who sought answers
\nfor why she had always been different.
\nif one can take anything from fairy tales,
\nperhaps the better moral is not
\n“princesses require rescue by men” but
\n“we thrive when we work together”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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