this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
221 points (95.5% liked)
196
5505 readers
1085 users here now
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
Other rules
Behavior rules:
- No bigotry (transphobia, racism, etc…)
- No genocide denial
- No support for authoritarian behaviour (incl. Tankies)
- No namecalling
- Accounts from lemmygrad.ml, threads.net, or hexbear.net are held to higher standards
- Other things seen as cleary bad
Posting rules:
- No AI generated content (DALL-E etc…)
- No advertisements
- No gore / violence
- Mutual aid posts are not allowed
NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.
Also, when sharing art (comics etc.) please credit the creators.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.
Other 196's:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Unfortunately, you missed the point.
The objective of Grimm fables is not to make kids feel good, nor to scare them, really. It's to prepare them for the real world.
Red Riding Hood is not a story about kids being eaten by wolves. It's a story about teaching kids that there are adults in the world who want to harm them. Adults who will make themselves appear non-threatening in order to lure those kids into harm.
What OOP implies here is that by removing elements of children's stories that make us uncomfortable is exactly working against the morals and purpose of those stories.
As an autistic child I never understood those dimensions of the story anyway. I am literally realizing them right now in my 40s upon reading your comment. Instead, I learned those life lessons because my parents told them to me directly.
Good thing you weren't born in that era, too. You would've been discarded/drowned/sold/cloistered/etc. as a witch like the rest of us NDs. 😅😶
Ah, same. My parents were neurodivergent and very blunt with life lessons, too. Neurotypicals have that kind of "beat around the bush" "don't say the quiet part out loud" "guide them to water" type of attitude I think.