> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:51 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Censorship > > And hunters killed Bambi's mom in the beginning of that classic. > > I'd surmise that telling children stories of "monsters" can be traced > back through history. I think we need our cultural vampires and > werewolves.
I once had the pleasure of seeing Raymond McNally speaking (he is credited with the discovery of the historical Dracula) and we talked about this very thing afterwards. In Romania and Wallechia Dracula is now considered something of a folk hero - almost a Robin Hood style character. His atrocities are swept under the rug. The whole recent sanitization of children's material is ridiculous in the same vein. Grimm's Fairy Tales were violent to an extreme in places: but in the past 30 years or so a lot of people have "decided" what the "good and bad" bits are and changed the stories. Nobody gets their thumbs chopped off, the wolf isn't split open with the axe to release grandma and the woodsman never slaughtered a pig and presented its heart as Snow White's. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:155430 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
