JENNIFER BLAKE | REALISM AND FAIRY TALES

I saw it again this week: "Romance novels, like fairy tales, lack realism; they make young women believe a handsome prince is going to rescue them with promises of happy-ever-after."


Oh, please.


I loved fairy tales as a girl, but spent not a single second staring down the road for my prince. It’s my considered opinion that those who use this analogy know fairy tales only from Disney movies, particularly "Cinderella" with its dreamy-eyed heroine singing "Some Day My Prince Will Come." They are seriously misinformed. (And don’t get me started on the premise that women can’t tell fiction from real life while men apparently have no problem distinguishing between James Bond’s 007 stunts and their daily grind.)

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