Here are some breaking news for all bad-ass-aesthetically-spoiled-princesses like me!
Last night, I found a very interesting hypothesis by Bruno Bettelheim. In his “Kinder Brauchen Märchen”/“Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, he explains that the fairy-tales featuring beast grooms (like frogs and beasts) are all about how love and affection will turn sexuality, which the inexperienced perceive as something animalistic (the beast-groom), into an awarding act (the prince). He does not claim that is about kissing someone you actually don’t want to kiss.
So good-bye to the idea that good girls get awarded for kissing frogs and beasts!
(Yeah dad, I do remember what you told me: “A handsome man is good for a night, a good man is good for a life-time.” My intuition also does not completely agree with rejecting the frog thing, but… Damn it!)
And here my last frog-kiss. You can send in the prince!
Tags: Fairy Tales
any theories on good+handsome men?
btw on this pic it looks like the one frog is jumping the bones of the other one. or at least it is the male being carried around by the female (in nature the male is often the more handsome smaller but lazy one
). i am no expert in frog business since i have to watch out for princesses myself, but it seems odd to me that you would kiss the girl-frog, no wounder it frequently turns out as a failure lol (unless you dont mind mixing it up a bit). don’t you think?