For museimagination Disney Prompts - HEA
Happily. Ever. After. Three words that, on their own, mean so little. One their own, they amount to not much at all. Yet, string them together, and you get one of the greatest lies mass fed to young girls. Oh I'm sure it seems so innocent, the belief that if one is good and pure and holds the wonder of life and love in their heart that, one day, their prince will come and sweep them off their feet and deliver them to a castle wherein life will be perfect and wonderful for all time.
In essence we're setting children up to fail in their first fantasy. It's so close to the entire lie schools teach of abstinence alone. Don't have sex until you're married, but put your career first so, well, never have sex until you're thirty. With the Disney fairytale, you're telling them to lock themselves away, so often hidden away, until only their one true love can ever find them.
Then love is shown as so easy, simple. A single glance and there's no turning back. Why sort of lies and bull is this? Love isn't easy. Love isn't simple. Love is hard work. It's pain. It's... Nothing like what these silly things show you, make children believe.
Then the HEA. The happily ever after. Right. Anyone buying this fantasy? Put on a beautiful gown, say I do, everyone's happy and life is perfect. Wrong. Life is now, lets be honest in this entire princess lie, about bearing children and playing diplomat and looking perfect and beautiful no matter what and then doing this time and again until, in the end, you die. If you're lucky. Unlucky is murdered to make way for someone younger and prettier, or locked away and forgotten.
Happily ever after doesn't exist. Love doesn't make things work. There is no happy ending.
In essence we're setting children up to fail in their first fantasy. It's so close to the entire lie schools teach of abstinence alone. Don't have sex until you're married, but put your career first so, well, never have sex until you're thirty. With the Disney fairytale, you're telling them to lock themselves away, so often hidden away, until only their one true love can ever find them.
Then love is shown as so easy, simple. A single glance and there's no turning back. Why sort of lies and bull is this? Love isn't easy. Love isn't simple. Love is hard work. It's pain. It's... Nothing like what these silly things show you, make children believe.
Then the HEA. The happily ever after. Right. Anyone buying this fantasy? Put on a beautiful gown, say I do, everyone's happy and life is perfect. Wrong. Life is now, lets be honest in this entire princess lie, about bearing children and playing diplomat and looking perfect and beautiful no matter what and then doing this time and again until, in the end, you die. If you're lucky. Unlucky is murdered to make way for someone younger and prettier, or locked away and forgotten.
Happily ever after doesn't exist. Love doesn't make things work. There is no happy ending.