Mentions (6)
"Can you imagine how I would feel, at 6 years old, if someone told me I might be a girl trapped in a boy's body because I liked Cinderella?? That would've fucked me mentally."
"Some guy (who had the exact same glamorous 80s hair) came up to them and started hitting on my mom. He bought her two drinks, apparently he had a picture of his wife in his wallet, and he claimed to be the drummer for Cinderella. My mom thought he was full of shit and wasn't interested, so she went "
"¨Why didn´t Cinderella´s slippers disappear at midnight with the rest of her outfit?¨ (Maybe the Fairy Godmother used stronger magic for the slippers)"
"It's interesting that so many of our culture's most popular romance stories revolve around a class disparity - titanic, the notebook, notting hill, most contemporary "booktok" shit, fairy tales and classic literature like Cinderella or Great Expectations, etc."
"This latest remake wasn't made for children, at least not ostensibly. It was made for HR adult women who have terminal Disney Princess Syndrome and fanfic-obsessed teen girls. It's the same Cinderella story, only It takes place in an explicitly patriarchal society and Ella wants to be a girlboss who"
"Why didn´t Cinderella´s slippers disappear at midnight with the rest of her outfit?"