Such Injustice

December 3, 2009

I read Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by Galland (edited by E.Dixon, 1893) in my spare time.

I would like to express my anger and distaste.

The women in the stories are usually depicted as headstrong and powerful. They are  beautiful, intelligent, strong, and endowed with fantastic powers. The decisions they make are important enough to determine the fate of a kingdom or a human being. However, they almost always die a horrible, bloody death while trying to save a prince’s life.

Let me illustrate. A prince who is down on his luck finds a hidden subterranean castle in which a beautiful, kidnapped princess lives. He is given a rich bath, luxurious robes, feasts, and I assume, sex by the infatuated princess. The prince gets drunk and destroys a talisman which summons the genie who kidnapped the princess, saying that he is ready to kill all genies so that he and the princess can live happily every after.

The genie comes, asking why the princess called, and the prince runs away. As he is leaving, he hears the screams of the princess as the genie beats her up senseless and bloody. The genie knows that someone has been there but the princess will not say who even under torture. The prince still leaves, cowardly.

The genie finds the prince and brings him to the underground castle. He interrogates the princess and the prince, but they both deny his allegations. The genies cuts the princess’s hands off. The prince denies some more. The genie eventually kills the princess. Guess what the dumb dick did to the prince?

He turned him into an ape. Oh, such injustice.

 

Anyway, take a no fax payday loan to take your mind off things.