Feminist Fairy Tales/Nightmare Fuel

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • The ending of "Fairy Gold", in which the statue kills a man. This is presented as a good thing.
  • The ending of "White Riding Hood" has the grandmother split the head of a hunter open with an axe. And then there's the other hunter, who is heavily implied to want to molest the underage White Riding Hood.
  • All the stories seem to be set in a world in which the few men who aren't rapists are incompetent.