May 28, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty: Peter Pan

May 23, 2020

Book Review – City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles

May 23, 2020
by Alan Whitfield

Artist – Alan Whitfield

May 11, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty: Rumpelstiltskin

Pretty people are nice; unattractive people are bad. At least, that‘s what our fairy tales signal, and what our secret lizard brains have always thought. A prime example of pretty=good; ugly=bad is “Cinderella.” Our contemporary Walt Disney version of Cinderella portrays the stepmother and stepsisters as ugly, as grotesque. And they are mean indeed. Our pink-cheeked heroine is beautiful inside and out.
May 8, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty: Cinderella

Pretty people are nice; unattractive people are bad. At least, that‘s what our fairy tales signal, and what our secret lizard brains have always thought. A prime example of pretty=good; ugly=bad is “Cinderella.” Our contemporary Walt Disney version of Cinderella portrays the stepmother and stepsisters as ugly, as grotesque. And they are mean indeed. Our pink-cheeked heroine is beautiful inside and out.
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