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by: Yoshick

In an era where distressed damsels are a novelty, and knights are an endangered species, you have to wonder what's wrong with you when you don't get excited at the sight of polished armor.

It doesn't make a difference that a thousand people chant that line, it is better to have loved and to have lost, but haven't we heard that before in a story of all things? In a piece of fiction? Let's face it, storytellers make things up. They're just like that kid you couldn't stand in elementary school, the one who was laughable until he turned into kind of a sociopath. Shakespeare's a liar and a blabber mouth, Hans Christian Anderson was clearly a sadist, and the Brothers Grimm were perverts. The original Red Riding Hood? Perverts, I'm telling you.

I don't think Rapunzel was in that tower because she had to be. I don't think she wanted to leave it. (I bet she had broadband.) Rapunzel is the story of an accidental protagonist who tried to have it both ways, and lost them all. Women in towers aren't victims. Men on horses aren't heros. At least, not by default.
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