Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
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People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change..
They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders.
It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.
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I don't know whether to rate this based on my enjoyment of the reading experience or based on my level of fascination with the actual swapped text. Because the conscious decision of the creators to really only swap gender markers but keep the rest obviously reproduced aspects of the fairytales that greatly displease me (think ableism and heteronormativity). They are aware of this, but that doesn't change the text, does it *shrug* I loved how the gender swap revealed how predatory the originals are, how much the princesses are CHILDREN by measures of today and how their child-like physicality is over-emphasised, how devastatingly creepy fairytales are... I appreciate that being demonstrated, but clearly constantly realising this throughout the read did not make for a good time :D I think this was an interesting experiment, but I just wouldn't read most of these stories to children, full stop.
Description
People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change..
They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders.
It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.
Book Information
Posts
I don't know whether to rate this based on my enjoyment of the reading experience or based on my level of fascination with the actual swapped text. Because the conscious decision of the creators to really only swap gender markers but keep the rest obviously reproduced aspects of the fairytales that greatly displease me (think ableism and heteronormativity). They are aware of this, but that doesn't change the text, does it *shrug* I loved how the gender swap revealed how predatory the originals are, how much the princesses are CHILDREN by measures of today and how their child-like physicality is over-emphasised, how devastatingly creepy fairytales are... I appreciate that being demonstrated, but clearly constantly realising this throughout the read did not make for a good time :D I think this was an interesting experiment, but I just wouldn't read most of these stories to children, full stop.