{"id":17480,"date":"2024-11-17T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/?p=17480"},"modified":"2024-11-17T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:29:20","slug":"diana-gomez-week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/2024\/11\/17\/diana-gomez-week-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Gomez &#8211; Week 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My thesis for the research essay is that fairy tales are harmful for children because they teach old ideas about beauty, gender roles, and what is right or wrong. These stories often make kids think that how they look is the most important thing, especially for girls, who are shown that being beautiful is the key to being valued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From List A, the article I picked is Liz Grauerholz\u2019s &#8220;The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children&#8217;s Fairy Tales.&#8221; This stood out to me because it shows how fairy tales focus too much on women\u2019s looks. I agree with her idea that these stories teach girls they need to be pretty to matter, which can make them feel bad about themselves if they don\u2019t fit those beauty standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From List B, I chose &#8220;Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative&#8221; by Maria Tatar. This caught my attention because it explains how fairy tales shape the way people think and act. I liked how she points out that these stories pass down old ideas about how boys and girls are supposed to behave, which don\u2019t work in today\u2019s world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both articles explain how fairy tales can hurt kids by keeping old ideas about beauty and gender alive. I think these stories are more harmful than helpful because they teach kids to follow unfair rules instead of being true to themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thesis for the research essay is that fairy tales are harmful for children because they teach old ideas about beauty, gender roles, and what is right or wrong. These stories often make kids think that how they look is the most important thing, especially for girls, who are shown that being beautiful is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-11-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17481,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions\/17481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}