Sleeping beauty should be banned from schools?.

[margaret*e]

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mum-asks-school-take-sleeping-13938590

An innapropriate message, or is it all in her head?.

[astrologica]

For God's sake.....is this country gone totally mad? I think it is. Will we soon be hearing that Disney will be sued for sending 'inappropriate messages' to children? Where will this madness lead to? Is this why we haven't had a decent controversial discussion on here for ages...because folks are afraid their views will be traced in twenty years time by the thought police and they will be punished, shunned, or sent to Siberia? It really is scary.

[cee-dee]

There's far, far too much notice taken of "politically correct" things so where's it all gonna end up? Having all women covered from head to foot and capital punishment for even glancing at a woman?

[fallen-archie]

I suppose we have to remember that such decisions are being made by our own offspring, perhaps therefore we have to take some responsibility. Never before have I seen the depth of feeling expressed by young people and the blatant exploitation of those feelings by politicians from the left! We know how dangerous it can be to express an opinion about our heritage and to try and protect what we believe in. We are so wrapped up in what we have done wrong in the past we fail to properly learn from the experience going forward! There is currently a campaign to shut down a number of our newspapers by challenging advertisers not to place ads, they call it getting rid of hate, however it is also a blatant attempt to silence right wing media, why? Because they carry stories which some disagree with, Why can’t we make up our own minds? The BBC is constantly challenged by lefties keen to shut them up also, where does this lead? Well, control of all media and the public made to conform to a strict set of rules, is that really what our young people want? Hate speech is wrong on all levels, but so too is the constant elevation of minorities into sainthood

[**tigerlilly**]

I wish a handsome prince would come and kiss me while I was sleeping!!! it would take my mind off the fact I'm gonna wake up next to an ugly toad in the morning.

[Anonymous]

I think people have started to overthink things a bit toooooo much.

[bankhaunter]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I think people have started to overthink things a bit toooooo much.

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That's a fact.

Does she think her son will think the story is real?  Doesn't she think he would ever learn the difference in how you behave and doesn't she have any connection with real life.

93% don't agree with her.

[cee-dee]

Are they some those who can't distinguish fact from fantasy? Some of them believe in their fantasy so much they try to (and sometimes do) act on it leading to either their injury, death or that of others.

There are those who believe in fairies. Some children once hashed up a scene and took a photo of it leading to some people actually believing the kids had taken a pic of "real" fairies. Many years later it was revealed to have been faked.

Now.... if some of those politically correct types thought things through..... they might, just might try to get all kids fairy stories banned on the grounds that some kids might eventually try to enact them in real life.

I suppose when they've thought like that, those computer games where the people killed come back to life and the crashed cars are all intact next time the game's played should be banned too?

[margaret*e]

Makes you wonder what sort of mind she has to read something like that into a fairytale tale, although lots of them had sinister origins.

[cee-dee]

Perhaps it was wishful thinking on the part of the authors?

[bankhaunter]

There are those who believe in fairies. Some children once hashed up a scene and took a photo of it leading to some people actually believing the kids had taken a pic of "real" fairies. Many years later it was revealed to have been faked.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Cottingley fairies.

It's what happens when people want to believe something so much rationality goes out the window.  Bit like flat earthers.

Studies have shown that children who have a religious upbringing are more likely to believe fantasy is real.

[cee-dee]

Well folks, what's your take on this?:-

https://news.sky.com/story/child-traumatised-by-shopping-centres-reindeer-decoration-in-christmas-gr...

[fallen-archie]

Oh that’s so stoopid, hope she doesn’t take him to Tatton hall there is a room stuffed to the gunnels with the heads of animals! But seriously surely the woman could have explained the fact it wasn’t real is she just another snowflake?

[bankhaunter]

I think the woman went a bit far but it does seem to me a very odd choice of wall decoration in that particular circumstance.

An imitation hunting trophy in a Christmas grotto?

[023mjc]

She needs to get a life and find a cause that actually matters.

[margaret*e]

She obviously doesn't know the meaning of the word mortified.

Although I do think it's a strange choice for a grotto whatever the reasoning.

[jd.linklater]

Medieval England does seem an unusual theme for a Christmas Grotto.  But that's obviously why they've substituted the reindeer with what looks like a Red Deer stag.

Maybe it was for historical accuracy, I can't imagine what life at Christmas must have been like in Medieval England, but one thing's for sure there were no reindeer running around.  

[margaret*e]

The thing is, mjc , stupid articles like this detract from the cause and the point being made because all the focus is on what she's done/said.

She's certainly had her five minutes of fame from what started as a small article in the local paper.

[jd.linklater]

Sleeping Beauty has always struck me as a bit weird. 

Handsome prince kisses a woman who's been asleep for 100 years, did he not think she was a bit old for him

Still he must have been a brave guy, after being asleep for 100 years she must have been minging, I would have insisted she at least take a shower first.

[cee-dee]

Really, you have to get in to a world of fantasy to accept SB for what it is, pure fantasy. You can't really mix fantasy with reality unless the fantasy has a ring if truth in it meaning it might just be possible "one day".

However, with the pure fantasy in SB, a woman who'd been asleep for 100 years would have remained exactly the same age (of beauty and purity?) and wouldn't have deteriorated in any way.