Today I read an article concerning fairy tales and the stereotypes they may bring up. It says that because of fairy tales, young girls are shown that beauty is the most important thing. Ugly being associated with evil and being punished shows up in many fairy tales, up to 17 percent. It also says that these fairy tales were used with the intent to teach young children gender roles in the ninteenth century. With this, I can say that the main point of the article is " fairy tales are teaching young girls to follow the old stereotypical female."
Once I completed reading the article, I agreed with its main point very much. To prove it, I will use characters from manga and video games, things I am very familiar with, to show that what's happening in fairy tales is spreading to other places as well. My first example is from Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles, and her name is Sakura. She is meek, beautiful, kind, just like the stereotypical girl would be. The other one is from Kingdom Hearts. Her name is Kairi, and she is your typical damsel in distress. She really didn't do anything besides wait for the hero to rescue her from evil.
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