Disney Princes In ‘Snow White’ And ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Are ‘Sexual Predators,’ Claims Professor

In the Disney book and movie, the prince kisses an unconscious Snow White, who was put to sleep by an enchanted apple left by her wicked stepmother, the Queen. The stepmother is famous for her line, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the fairest of them all?”

Since the mirror reminds her that it is Snow White who gets that honor, it sends the jealous stepmother into a tizzy, which leads her to want Snow White dead. The stepmother first sent a huntsman to kill her, but Snow White opts to hang out with the seven dwarfs for protection after learning about her wicked stepmother’s plans to kill her.

When the Huntsman fails, the stepmother leaves an apple for Snow White. When Snow White bites the apple, she falls into a long sleep, and no one can wake her. She goes through a long slumber until a prince plants a kiss on the sleeping Snow White.

When it comes to Sleeping Beauty, she is a beautiful princess who is cursed to prick her finger on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday. It is an evil witch or sorceress who curses her, and as she turns 16, she does prick her finger. Beauty then falls into a deep slumber, and much like Snow White, she is awakened by the kiss of a prince.

These are age-old stories that change from time to time, but the main players are always the same, and the princesses are awakened by a kiss when in an unconscious state that is brought on by something evil. In the story, the princes are the heroes but not from where this college professor sits.

Muta states that many violent sexual crimes seem as if they “mimicked the actions of male protagonists in fairytales and connected her argument to the #MeToo hashtag highlighting sexual harassment, which has been found to be especially rampant in Hollywood.”

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