For some time they were alone like this in the wilderness. But it happened that the King of the country held a great hunt in the forest. Then the blasts of the horns, the barking of dogs, and the merry shouts of the huntsmen rang through the trees, and the fawn heard all, and was only too anxious to be there. “Oh,” said he, to his sister, “let me be off to the hunt, I cannot bear it any longer,” and he begged so much that at last she agreed.
~The Brothers Grimm
Alright, here is the high level synopsis of this were pedophiliactic nightmarish scenario. A brother and sister are like: “Shit. Fuck. Our stepmother sucks, let’s run away.” So they do, and the step mother is like: “Oh man, I have to keep fucking with them. I’m a witch, let’s fuck their days up and poison all the creeks.” So she does that, the brother drinks some water, and he is turned into a fawn. Then, for some insane reason (they are living happily in the forest by this time, the sister is normal), the brother (who is a fawn) is like: “The king is on a hunt! Let me run around and fuck with them”. So he does, and then the king eventually tracks him to the house, where the king meets the sister and he goes: “Well fuck me sideways, a girl, I shall marry you and pump you full of babies”. So they do that once, she has a baby, then another evil witch kills her kid, swaps in her own daughter, and then they are killed when the king finds it out later.
First, before I get into it… we really need to re-evaluate the decisions of the past towards girls. Why was this a thing. Furthermore, why were American girls married off at 13 to 40 year old men. Shit, our history is fucked. Okay, now let’s get into the moral. [Click “Read More” to get into the real potatoes]
This whole “if your part of the monarchy everything works out” shit gets old. Look at the ones where our good guy is just a Jane Schmo, each one of those ends poorly for the good guy. Yet, somehow, once the good guy is rich or a leader, they take vengeance on the bad folks. Here we see it again. The brother and sister start off as just generic folks, peasants. They live under the abusive hand of a step mother, runaway (which should have been the end of the story), and are pursued by the evil stepmother who (in her rage) poisons all the water in the forest! Anyone else think she over reacted? I sure as fuck do.
So, they get no help in dealing with this evil woman. Then, suddenly, the sister gets married to a King, becomes a Queen, and when something bad befalls her, vengeance is swift and exact. Thus, being rich and in power means nothing bad can harm you. But if you are 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the population, you’re screwed. That seems fair.
I guess that is harsh, looking at an old note, I pointed out that the real morals (if you weren’t my fucked up brain) would be love conquers all and bad folks get punished for bad actions… but you have to be rich for that to happen. Okay, thanks, goodbye!