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I am going to be writing about fairy tales and how Disney tends to change the fairy tales and make them different just to sell them to a different audience. Because, a little history lesson folks, back in the day, fairy tales weren’t meant for children. They were meant for adults to give them a sense of right and wrong and to remind them what they are and aren’t supposed to do. The reason that they are written with such simple writing and are so easy to read is because when fairy tales were first around, most of the common folk didn’t have that great of reading abilities. So when you wrote for someone like that you had to make it easier. But then, Disney came in and they decided to change it all around. And in doing so, they’ve changed how society sees fairy tales and the use for fairy tales all together. Not only have they done that but they have also injected their own beliefs into the story and reinforced a lot of gender stereotypes and a lot of racism into their stories. I mean, why did our first princess of color have to happen in the 21^st century? I know there was Pocahontas but she never really exemplified a princess. They actually enforce the stereotypes of Native Americans in that story.

There is just a lot that I don’t agree or like that Disney does and they tend to take the best stories for their own and change them so that the original meaning isn’t the same anymore. After that, they copyright the shit out of it so that way it can never be reproduced in any way without Disney’s sole say so and agreement with how they want their story represented. Even though I am not an English major anymore, I still love English, the stories, and the writing that goes into it. And to have one company single-handedly destroy stories, it makes me sad and unhappy.