A woman’s sex appeal is magic To get to the ball, Cinderella is endowed by her fairy godmother—i. e. by magic—with all the exterior trappings, allure, and clothing needed to catch the attentions of the prince. In Disney’s film the fairy godmother is a fat old babuschka, implying the wisdom of older women is what transforms Cinderella. But the magic that makes Cinderella into a beautiful princess is not wisdom or fairy dust. It’s a metaphor for something far more powerful and primal: the magic of a young woman reaching adulthood and the peak of her sexual attractiveness, at age 18-25.
As all men know, this attractiveness is godlike in its potency. In the Cinderella story, the magic is powerful enough to arrest the prince’s mind at first sight; powerful enough to make him search his entire realm to find her. In the real world, sexual attractiveness has brought down governments, as well as inspired most modern music. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters (all significantly older than her) cannot achieve it despite all the artifice of poise and finely-tailored clothing (and, perhaps, three years in a Gender Studies degree).
A woman’s sex appeal is magic that runs out This is the most important part of the story: the magic that transforms Cinderella is strictly limited by time. At midnight, Cinderella is returned to rags. In real life, around age 30, women’s physical attractiveness tanks. In both cases, the magic is gone, forever.Women don’t realize the magic is running out until it’s too late Cinderella is too swept up in the prince’s eyes and the glamour of the ball to notice the passing of time. Consequently she is caught out by the clock chiming midnight and has to flee for home, panicking at the loss of her glamours.
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Triggered!!! How dare you, Cinderellais a strong independent woman!! How about I drive this glass slipper up your rectum you misogynistic trash (feminist Disney proncess)
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Cinderella. Is the meaning behind it for a girl to find a husband in her prime attractive years 15-30 before her biological clock ticks down?
There's never been any indication in the Cinderella story about her stepsisters being much older than her. The story indicates they have big feet and they're unattractive. But their mother, Cinderella's stepmother, who is beautiful, dotes on them because they're her daughters from her previous marriage. Cinderella is assigned cook and cleanup duties BECAUSE she's attractive, but with a layer of dirt, dust and dishpan hands, her beauty is dulled, somewhat. Her stepsisters wear finery to play up the fact that they have money and detract from their unattractiveness. However, they are ugly personally, as is the stepmother, despite her external beauty. The story shows Cinderella as a friend to little animals, someone who's kind and pleasant. She never complains about being a maid to her stepsisters and to the household. She's grateful to have a roof over her head, though miserable at her fate. The story implies she's been doing this so long after her father's death, that she remembers nothing about her life with her father and mother. You can certainly POSTULATE your thesis, but it wasn't present in the original story. Magic is magic. The fairy godmother is NOT all powerful. If she were, she would've married off Cinderella and been done with it. But she couldn't. Cinderella had to do some of the work of charming the prince.
No that's actually an observation that affirms OP. The contrast between Cinderella the young girl who is honest and not cynical is contrasted to her older and jaded step mom and step sisters who squandered their gifts of youth and beauty. The over valued themselves in the sexual market place, and were so committed in their hypergamy, that life passed them by and they're old and alone.
@doctord00m The stepsisters are near Cinderella's age and they stepmom remarried later in life, so she wasn't passed by in the sexual market. She got TWO husbands and was widowed a second time. Life didn't pass by the stepmother. She was incredibly lucky and married a wealthy second husband too, Cinderella's dad. She's not JADED. She's just a vain, unplesant woman. In one version the stepsisters are attractive, but their personalities are ugly. The stepmom is always seen as beautiful, but a horrible person. It's always implied that she wowed Cinderella's dad, kept up her false self when around him and when he died, reaped the benefit of her treachery. She resented the fact of Cinderella because of the contrast between her good personality and the trio's ugly ones. And they aren't alone. The three of them have each other, shopping and what have you. It seems they live a charmed life.
JESUS CHRIST, Perv! You are WAAAAY overthinking Cinderella! And it IS kinda ironic that you say “at 30 a woman’s attractiveness tanks”, yet MOST of the women in the pictures were over 30 when those pictures were taken! Just saying (I mean Anna Kendrick was exactly 30, but still, her looks didn’t tank! She is 35 now, and she’s still gorgeous! My mother is 48 and she is STILL gorgeous I can remember when I was maybe 10 or 11 going to the hospital on “bring your daughter to work” day. People used to call her Dr. Barbie, and she was 40 then. (by the way, I definitely got MY looks from my dad! 😩)
Yeah but you can't compare celebrity women to everyday women. Look at Salma Hyak. 50 years old and looks better than most 20 year olds. She was probably the hottest women in the world in her prime years.
Who says I can’t compare celebrities and non-celebrities (because c’mon celebrities are every day people too ya know. You may not meet them every day, but someone does 😉). And I agree, so... hmmm, another woman who is the “exception”? And while I would ordinarily agree w/you my dad’s best friend is married to a woman who looks EXACTLY like Salma Hayek did in like 1995! It’s crazy! Also, the guy is an auto mechanic, so she’s defs not in it for the money!
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It's more like this: The Prince: is a consumerist, and guided by the shallow 'standards' of the establishment that had brainwashed him into certain behaviour patterns where looks are more important than qualification or experience. Being in an official position also does not leave him options or choices to fit into his role. Cinderella: is a working class girl (not by birth, but by status) who received not much training or education - and whose only chance to make a career is to team up with someone of influence... by letting the cat meow. The Fairy: is a female pimp who does not question the standards of the surrounding conditions but just uses the persons around to play her own game (motivations unknown; morals questionable) I don't see age playing a role here. Which also would be very relative seeing not uncommon examples like -say- certain models who manage to marry themselves into top positions also at the age of -say - 30 or so Interesting: although Cinderella's pussy is now busy with the Prince... the step-mother and step sisters still have a good enough life of their own.
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No. She was a girl who was in a bad situation, treated horribly by people and remained a nice, sweet person through all of that. Magically, she got a shot to be seen without them holding her back and pushing her down.
She was seen for who she really was and was found the most worthy. She is the underdog we all cheer for to succeed. She is beautiful inside and out and it had shown through. There is hope for those being bullied, oppressed and pushed down.
there's underlying messages in fairytale related to the times they were written. Pre 20th century it was important for a young maiden to marry young and 25 was considered old for a woman to be looking to get married
It's about a girl who was disliked by jealous people treated like the underdog and hidden in plain sight so she and others around would never acknowledge her worth. She then got dressed up finally and went on the town to find that she was the cat's meow and those around was just afraid she might get attention and snatch up what they want for themselves. This still happens among women to this day, the wrong girls get attention and plot to keep better women down this is what leaves so many of you men dissatisfied and confused about what relationships should be like. Stop thinking with your small head and ego. I know a lot of people will hate me for this and stay away from me even more but I do not care, I am a lightworker. Stop choosing the wrong women, your children and the human race suffers later.
She was a damsel in distress who used to sing her mating song for a "Prince". She is actually the kind of girl misogynists call golddiggers. Yet i am pretty sure the same guys are gonna comment here that she is the perfect woman in the world
I can testify to this, women who wouldn't even be caught dead with me ( so to speak ) when they were younger I end up fucking when they got into their 40's and older, and there's nothing that's off limits for me sexually or otherwise to do with them which I find hilariously entertaining.
At that time, 200 or more years ago, a real Cinderella would have been age 15 to 18 (probably 16), the age of the Little Mermaid. Earlier Disney movies had teenage Disney princesses but due to the current politically correct environment, the most recent Disney Cinderella was much older like age 25. Therefore, she would be too old for a prince in the time period of the movie to have accepted her.
Fairy tales all have underlying messages written into them from when the times they were constructed. Beauty and beast for instance is about falling in love with the beast who raped marraige-abducted you. Snow White is warning for young women to be careful of older vain viscious women who are past their prime attractive years. Little Red Riding Hood is about not taking advice from strangers and forget the bad boy wolf instead look for the hard working woods man with the big chopper.
Agreed besides during that time in Europe women got married super early cause that was the norm then it makes no sense now, plus they never said how old cinderella was in the book
@nerdybutlazy I suppose it was necessary because biology drives us to grace sex in our teens and a woman who got knocked up without a husband was vulnerable
They were vulnerable because without someone to support them through child birth in a time before welfare, medicare, modern medicine etc they'd likely starve, get sick and die, freeze or get eaten by predators. Sex and our sex drive is a biological driving force telling us to procreate, before modern contraception if you had sex the woman got pregnant. Women valued the man on his ability to support her and men needed to know that if she was pregnant it was his child when he committed to her.
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Mmm i thought it was just about a guy wanting someone with similar status to himself. Cause he hardly noticed her until she was glammed up. I thought the film was also about jealous family members and things they’ll do to ruin your life
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i've seen a bunch of these biological clock questions pop up the last few days. I think it has more to do with it being someone's weird fetish and they keep making posts about it on multiple accounts than it does with this Cinderella story.
The window is even narrower. I'd say after 25, things go bad for us :( I watched some girls hit the wall by their senior year in high school even. Fortunately, I am still a wicked hot monster :)
What else would her parents/cousins be planning? She marries someone (much) older and richer, and in 20-30 years when he dies the whole family get elevated to a higher standing. She feels super useful, a good girl, her folk get some credit, the older richer man gets a beautiful woman and a heir.
From what I understand Cinderella the cartoon was more of a about finding a better life and find a husband to go with it a good one I don't know anything about the real one that are showing
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