I've seen a number of variants of that story, and always ended up at, "The wickedness is in the doing." As such, a lot of the wickedness is in the background - forcing women to compete with each other for property via potential property holders - but a lot of it is also in the foreground: That Cinderella is done specifically to by those around her.
In turn, even the supposedly good things she experiences are largely done to her rather than, "OK, here's a potential option or trade."
In further turn - and the part that seriously creeps me out - is the idea that the slipper itself, as an object, has more more of her identity in it than her voice, her face, or her own doing.
Any society placing humans in object category and placing objects-non-human above both human and object-human is unspeakably broken - and that pretty much describes what I see any time I walk out the door.
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Date: 2013-06-03 06:53 pm (UTC)In turn, even the supposedly good things she experiences are largely done to her rather than, "OK, here's a potential option or trade."
In further turn - and the part that seriously creeps me out - is the idea that the slipper itself, as an object, has more more of her identity in it than her voice, her face, or her own doing.
Any society placing humans in object category and placing objects-non-human above both human and object-human is unspeakably broken - and that pretty much describes what I see any time I walk out the door.