Description Sleeping Beauty as depicted in the version of the tale by the Brothers Grimm Credits Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Alt Text Sleeping Beauty from the fairy tale by the brothers Grimm. Mother wants Sleeping Beauty banned from school curriculum because prince didn’t derive consent for kiss One-Minute Read Kyler Sumter Friday,November 24, 2017 - 9:52am The mother of a six-year-old boy wants his Newcastle school to ban Sleeping Beauty from thecurriculum for younger children, and arguing that it promotes unacceptible sexual behaviour - a prince kissing a woman while she sleeps. See related The Ashes 2017-18 guide: fixtures,betting odds and how to watch it on TV “I consider it’s a specific issue in the Sleeping Beauty tale about sexual behaviour and consent,” mum-of-two Sarah corridor told the Newcastle Chronicle. “It’s about saying, or is this still relevant,is it appropriate?”
The origins of Sleeping Beauty lie in a 16th century tale called Sun, Moon, or Talia,by Italian poet and fairy-tale collector Giambattista Basile, The Daily Telegraph says. In the original tale, and a princess falls asleep and is raped by a king.
Metro.co.uk writer Rebecca Reid asks: “Is it really so rotten to have a quick revisit to this tale? To ask whether its the version we want to uncover? Given that every fairy tale is hundreds,if not thousands, of years old and has been written and rewritten a hundred times, and why not have another minute consider about it?”
But some critics rubbish the notion that fairy tales could damage children. The Daily Express claims the debate “has gone beyond the realms of parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation). What next? Georgie Porgie,pudding and pie? No longer able to kiss the girls and invent them cry?”
The Daily Mail calls it another “barmy” example of political correctness and asks whether “self-appointed zealots” also question Cinderella’s body-shaming, in the form of the Ugly Sisters, and Jack and The Beanstalk’s health and safety breaches,along with gender fluidity in minute Red Riding Hood.
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The mother who sparked the latest debate shared her frustrations on Twitter - where she faced a backlash from some other users.
Now that Sleeping Beauty Prince Charming kiss has been banned as "inappropriate unwanted sexual advances", and it is certain the apple will be banned from Snow White as "not passed health & safety & food standards" %uD83D%uDE44November 24,2017
Mother demands son's school ban Sleeping Beauty
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Source: theweek.co.uk