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The wicked one

1/11/2014

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I heard through the grape-vine they're re-making Cinderella. My train of thought goes- "ooooh! I love fairy-tales, wait, I hated that one, he only liked her because she was pretty, ohh remember that one with "Brandy"- " to landing on "Man, why do step-mom's always get the bad-rep."


Why are step-moms always portrayed "wickedly". Let's look here a moment:  

Snow White

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Not even close to all the adaptations of Snow White- I know. 

Cinderella

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Another one with a thousand adaptations. 

Hansel and Gretel

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Enchanted

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Evil, but still kinda fabulous.

The Labyrinth  

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I know Bowie isn't a step mom- but if you put Jareth next to Narcissa you're going to see double. 
  And if we aren't abandoning our children in the woods, asking a huntsman to cut them to pieces, sending them through portals, making them babysit (the horror) or making them slaves- well those stories just have no mothers at all. 
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No, that's not Ariel in some incestuous thing with her Dad. (Hey you thought it too). No, that's her Mom, Queen Athena- and she's dead. 
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This, is a fan pic because Pocahontas's mom is dead too. 
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Google didn't even give me a fan pic of Belle's mom. You guessed it- she's dead too. 

What about adoptive parents?

Tangled. 

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If they do a live-action- Susan Sarandon gets dibs. 

The media hates moms. 

   I actually ran into this little Wiki page while doing some digging for this blog. Check this out. This link is "The Roles of Mother's in Disney". It's eye opening. Look, I love these movies and stories- all of them (except that Hilary Duff one). However it is interesting that you can only have adventure if you're parents are absentee, evil, or dead. "Then the Princess could wait until she's a grown up and not in rebellion to have her adventure...." and the executive producers would laugh me out of the industry forever. It's interesting though, because these stories stay with us. "Wicked Stepmother" is a pretty common phrase. When I tell my kids fairy tales- I may mention: 
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Roles of Mother's in Disney- Wiki link
Photo links:


http://www.rattlebeak.com/go/movieimages/scrpbook/image01/image01-03.html

http://www.mommyish.com/tag/fairy-tales/

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/440719513506289263/

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vera_storia_di_Biancaneve

http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/03/23/top-ten-evil-stepmothers?page=2

http://stephanietmcnally.blogspot.com/2012/02/hansel-and-gretel-archetype-analysis.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42O_Q_f5SNQ

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_Athena

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/disney-parents/images/31449944/title/pocahontas-mom-fanart

http://www.eonline.com/photos/3071/top-10-movie-queens/116669

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