Reflections on Snow White Wipe *

*Edited title inspired by Heather's adorable Caksie. It'll make sense if you read the comments.

We recently purchased a copy of Disney's Snow White for the wee ones and after viewing it several hundred times, I have to say I'm seeing it a whole new light. There are some interesting messages in this particular bit of Disneyana. Makes you wonder about Old Uncle Walt.

To be fair, some of them are gifts from the original tale. I personally enjoy the moral of chastity as presented by the Snow. If I have it right, the story says: if you aren't perfectly virginal and chaste, you will die. Because let's face it, if Snowy had been behind the bushes with Prince Stud, love's first kiss would have been fait accompli and therefore, an ineffectual antidote to the poisoned apple.

And let's talk about the warning against vanity. If you take your looks too seriously, you're going to wind up dying an old and ugly crone. How deliciously appropriate that the queen dies as a haggard old woman. Of course, that is Disney's version. One of the original stories has her feet being encased in red-hot iron shoes as she dances to her death.

Why am I suddenly wanting to listen to Madonna?

Anyway...let's get to the truly disturbing shit, shall we? Never mind that Prince Studly Tights kisses a dead chick. We've all heard the rants about that one. But no one has taken it to it's logical conclusion...she's a ZOMBIE! Everyone knows when a dead person wakes up, they are a) a vampire or b) a zombie. There was no blood exchange, so I have to assume that b) is the winner. He picks her up and carries her off and you just know she's biding her time until she can take him to the ground with her undead strength and eat his brains! Where is Buffy when you really need her?

Yes, I am probably over-analyzing this to death. I'm a SAHM. I have to take my amusement where I find it. And right now, the idea of an undead Snow White chowing on dwarf brains is it.