.Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales, fairy tales more complex and intricated that it apparently seems to be.

Fairy Tales, nowadays, have many detractors for consider it a dangerous weapon against women's mind: an open door to manipulation and control to man's will.

For example, here in my country, Spain, my beloved "Equality Ministry" has tagged and suprime many of them for considering it

"toxic tools" by reproducing roles and stereotypes that could have ended leading to machism violence against women ( for example, the Wolf character on " little Red Riding Hood")

As always, a twisted and alarmist thinking precisely from those who pretend to annihilate the most.

From my point of view: nothing further from truth: In fact, if we look back on history we can find the first traces and development of Fairy Tales by the hand of feminist women full of creative energy, eager to enhance women's social relevance whose thought about went beyond what it was stablished.

Let's mention the first woman of whom we have a knowledge to: Baroness Marie Catherine d’Aulnoy.

She was a French, Parisian born writer (1651-1705) married on 1666 with the Baron D'Aulnoy who was 30 years older than her. She became widowed at 1681

It was believed, that Fairy Tales were just pieces of folkloric and popular tales spreaded by kids in their games; in fact, as Melisa D'Ashley defends they were the product of the " blue blood" writer of the XVII century known as the " Conteusses"

One of the most important of whom was precisely, D'Aulnoy whose more popular writings were her " Fairy Tales" and her adventure stories in Les Contes des Fées (" Fairy Tales) y Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fées a la Mode (" The new Tales" and "The Fairy Tales of Fashion ") all of them plenty of revolutionary women and feminist activism.

But it's not necessary to dig that deep just to find roots of feminism: all the contemporary " Fairy Tales" widely known, dated on different siecles, written by different thinkers and coming for different countries and cultures have something in common:

1. They all lead you to a wise and possitive conclusion

2. Most of them, transmit hope through the message that good behavior leads to good results and success

3. They all, even through maquiavelist interpretations, make no distinctions among characters due their genders or economic conditions you will find heroes and heroines equally no matter if they are males or females or their social procedences; on the contrary, most of them relies on the implicit conception that justice will prevail under any other circumstances.

To rear children and cultivate their minds with an appropriate moral , at time they enjoying themselves, could be one of the most difficult parts of parenthood's.

I can't find what are the risk for parents that use Fairy Tales to nurture their children's minds with ideals of hope and justice impregnated all with a big quantity of moral and learnings about ethical conducts and correct social behavior.

" Fairy Tales" can be a powerful weapon and it starts with a flooded imagination and a pen at hand's.

Let's start the war!