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Fairy-tale princesses and Olympic fakes (M&G)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Mail & Guardian column | 1 Comment
Cinderella was a money-grabbing trollop who used her looks to weasel her way up the social ladder. Or she was just a lucky kid who got the “hot” genes, the kind that sculpted a face which would catch the eye of the most powerful guy in the room. Either way, her glorious visage got her a seat in the royal throne room.
But the insinuation throughout the fairy tale is that the petite-footed, flaxen-haired, cinder-streaked bombshell was as flawless in moral fibre as she was of feature; that she was virtuous and pure and thus worthy of being fairyland’s first lady. Her gnarled, stout, ugly sisters were the exact opposite, the embodiment of everything that is mean, wretched and evil. They were as dreadful in character as they were in countenance. › Continue reading
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