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I don't get it...why should we have been told this when we were little? All it does is encourage women to either be lesbians (not that I have anything against lesbians) or hate men based on a stereotype of men that hasn't even applied to the world in the last approx. three decades (whether you meant for it to mean that or not).

Seeing as though the original fairy tale wasn't like that (i.e. saying the princess should come to the castle and prepare meals etc.) and no one expects women to stay home and prepare meals, clean, and bear children, I can't see the point in writing this. Society doesn't pressure girls to follow that stereotype anymore, although it is not completely wrong for a woman to want to dedicate herself to and obey (as in, do what he asks) her husband. I know that's what I want to do, because the Bible says that a wife should obey her husband and a husband should respect and love and take care of his wife (both are what's hard for them. i.e. hard for a woman to obey and hard for a man to love. You'd have to understand the Bible to understand what that means, so I won't get into it). As long as my husband does those things, there is nothing wrong with me catering to him and allowing him to be the head of the house. The head is nothing without the neck anyway, so it's not like the husband just pushes around his wife (the Bible says that the woman can leave in that case) because the husband can't take care of the house without the wife.

So was the randomly feminist rewrite of that fairy tale necessary? To say that we should have been told this is basically saying that a woman shouldn't want to do those things for her husband because to want to do those things would make you dependent, uneducated, and insecure. You are disrespected the lifestyles of many women. Not to mention, you are consequentally putting down your own belief that women should have a say in the lives they want to lead by making it seem as though being an old-fashioned, "obediant" wife is a horrible thing.

I personally liked the old "Princess and Frog" fairy tale...as a matter of fact, I liked all of the old fairy tales that was told to me...

Sorry if I read too much into your little fairy tale, but I've been analyzing stories for themes and such so I can't turn it off. Not to mention, my interpretation of it sorta offended me, although I did not really let it get to me.

That would be an awesome story.

i think its a cool story

. . . though I wouldn't want it said straight out like that, what the frog suggested is what I want.

That is hilarious! You should read Dealing With Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, it kind of deals with that subject.