Comments on: Dispatches from the treehouse

By: The War on Teachers: technology and accountability : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:39:48 +0000

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By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:02:08 +0000

Sleeping Beauty and Snow White always creeped me out b/c of the necrophiliac aspect. The only good/virtuous/beautiful woman is a dead woman?

Even as a little girl that’s a hard one to wrap your mind around. (The dead baby as the cause of Miss Susie’s damnation? Not so much, but then I’ve never been all that gaga over the goo-goo set.)

By: Canuck Down South

Canuck Down South — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:45:33 +0000

I heard the boat version, only it was about Miss Mary: Miss Mary had a steamboat, the steamboat had a hole, Miss Mary went to heaven, the steamboat went to Hell-o operator…” So maybe somewhere in between the infanticide and the tugboat, though there’s no reason for the steamboat to go to hell? The rest of it wasn’t all that clean either.

I vaguely remember learning in an undergrad children’s lit class that the Brothers Grimm did a lot of the initial sanitization…earlier versions of “Sleeping Beauty” include a striptease and the threat of cannibalism!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:51:24 +0000

I heard the boat version, too, only it was a tugboat, not a steamboat.

By: Z

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:20:28 +0000

That is a gorgeous picture! I wish it were cool and dry enough to go outside, but it will be by October!

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:15:57 +0000

It pisses me right the fucke offe that when they show the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on teevee, they cut out the chicken decapitation scene.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:43:19 +0000

Yeah, the steamboat version is really dumb. I think it’s part of a misguided effort to shield children from the sordid realities of life and death.

But, maybe I’m just morbid. I prefer the original Grimm’s fairy tales to the sanitized modern versions.

By: Fretful Porpentine

Fretful Porpentine — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:04:41 +0000

Aha, so this was originally a sordid tale of infanticide! That makes a whole lot more sense than the version I learned in my childhood, in which Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Susie went to heaven, and it was the steamboat who went to HELL-o operator.

By: DickensReader

DickensReader — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 05:41:51 +0000

That is really shocking about Susie. I’ve never heard it before, but the husband has………

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:50:46 +0000

My labor day party is a brunch, scheduled from 10 AM until it’s too hot to be outside….
I actually can read outside until about 10 or 11… then, not so much.