My son's take on Cinderella.
Last edited Sun Jul 21, 2013, 11:20 AM - Edit history (1)
He just turned 12 and we recently visited our family and were discussing fairy tales with my mother-in-law. She got out a paper she wrote in grad school analyzing several of them.
My son chimes in and says, "What I don't get about Cinderella is if the slipper fit so perfectly, why did it fall off in the first place?"
I thought that was pretty funny, and so did his Grandma. 
FYI he's reading this book for school this fall which is how we got on the subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Dark-Grimm-Adam-Gidwitz/dp/0142419672/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374419043&sr=1-1&keywords=a+tale+dark+and+grimm
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I will be sure to tell him that. My mother-in-law's paper was really funny...Jack had Daddy issues and the beanstalk was a phallic symbol. 
A man wouldn't because......well......it kinda gets chopped down at the end.
on - they were supposed to fit ONLY her - not her sisters, etc.
and another thing that confirms his thought- from a woman's perspective...
any woman in the heels-wearing age bracket knows that most shoes a woman might wear to a ball would be hella tighter at the end of an evening of dancing and she'd probably want to peel her shoes from her feet ASAP in the carriage!
But, women were apparently smarter then and wore softer ballet slipper like shoes with very low, small heels. 
Aha...Snopes looked into the mix-up:
http://www.snopes.com/language/misxlate/slippers.asp
We were laughing and I told him I never thought of that. So true about the heels! Thanks for the link....interesting.
