Renee Slansky
live happily ever after... Oh, but first they have the
most prefect first kiss (yeah, right!) It’s a familiar
and It’s a familiar and innocent genre that has been
fed into our psyche from a young age, and
resonates through every female heart and male’s
mind, although I’m guessing each sex is thinking
different things (?) As a child growing up with
Disney movies and G-rated romance, it was not at
all a surprise that I had begun to expect such
notions from fairytales to be applied to life...
needless to say I got a rude awakening! However,
as time went on and I realised that mermaids didn’t
exist (and this meant neither did Prince Eric!) the
way in which romantic stories were told started to
change, and it no longer became about a man
wooing a woman, but rather inviting her to have
sex with him, and going through his “50 Shades”
of issues.
Do women still want to be rescued?
Ahh... it’s something that was whispered
It’s a question that even firemen have to ask
to us as children for a bedtime story – the
nowadays, to avoid being sued by an independent
wondrous scenario of a prince riding in on a white
woman who can climb out of the burning building
stallion, bronzed chest and perfect hair glistening
by herself, “just fine thank you!” With the shift of
in the sunlight, sword drawn ready to slay the
gender power, role reversal and equal rights for
dragon that holds the fair maiden captive... Of
women, it seems men have lost their responsibility
course we all know how it goes: he has never met
to be our hero, provider and happy ending. Gone
the girl before, he rescues her and falls in love at
are the days of sitting around waiting for a man to
first sight, blah, blah, blah, they get married and
burst through our door and complete our existence
– we have been too busy building a career, lifting