(07-13-2024, 07:05 PM)Uncle wrote:(07-13-2024, 06:52 PM)Propagandhim wrote: I dunno, you're dumb enough to be an adult and not have heard of one of the most culturally recognized folk tales in human history.
I have actually been curious as to whether folk tales have started to become lost, people have better things to do with their time now
when I was young there was fuck all to do but read the random "classic" children's books lying around the house, like a mother goose digest or collection of grimm's, or aesop, or the fucking box car children, or listen to cassettes of folk/silly songs like there's a hole in my bucket
there was so much less media that had achieved cultural traction that you got exposed to the same stuff everyone else did, endless reprints of the same stories that had been told for hundreds of years
kids are not brought up with that at all now, if they're lucky they might get a little of it in school
part of the reason being that anything old is viewed with suspicion that even if it isn't explicitly problematic, it might subtly promote those attitudes, like why does the prince have to rescue the princess, why does the pied piper have to be a MAN and why is it appropriate for him to kidnap CHILDREN hmmmmmm???
Pretty sure they've all been deemed sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic and capitalist, colonialist and white supremacist now and been replaced by children's stories involving mothers with shecocks, dads with hevaginas and borderline racist noble savage first nations stories.