Today, I was babysitting a kid for the first time. She asked if she could watch a movie, so I downloaded Cinderella for her. An hour later, this 10-year-old girl was lecturing me about unrealistic standards of beauty and abusive relationships, and how I suck for liking the movie. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, while babysitting a young girl, I put on the movie Bambi, as she told me it was her favorite movie. I didn't know that her parents always skipped the scene where Bambi's mom dies. Despite my attempts to comfort her, she was still upset when her parents returned. Her mom blamed me. FML
Today, I asked out a girl I like to a movie. She said "I hate babysitting." FML
Today, I babysat a 10 year old from hell. She kept insulting me, saying I have tiny boobs, that boys must hate me, and that I'm ugly. I eventually got fed up and put her to bed. When her parents came back, she ran out of her room in tears and told them I'd beaten her. They believed it. FML
Today, I hired a babysitter for my two kids for the evening. When I came home, I found her sitting on the floor, crying with a full bowl of popcorn, watching a kids' movie. Apparently, my six-year-old had decided to re-enact every scene from the movie, and she couldn’t take it anymore. I had to hug her and assure her that she was doing a great job. FML
Today, I visited my girlfriend in the preschool she's interning at. She asked me to continue reading The Little Mermaid to her class, handing me the book. After the story, the whole class started to cry. She never told me to sugarcoat the ending and lie, Disney-style. FML
Today, I got home and found my babysitter furious and my 5 year-old exhausted from crying. Normally he chooses to wear Disney princess dresses but today his grandma came for a visit, saw what he was wearing, told him he was bad, and forced him to wear trousers. I’m ready to kill the bitch. FML
Today, I was watching the movie Frozen with my 8 year old daughter. I had seen it before, so I sung along with some of the songs. My daughter put a finger over my lips, said "Shhhhhhhhut the fuck up," then turned back to the TV, giggling. FML
Today, I went to watch the Movie "UP." At one point in the movie I got really sad and started to cry a bit. The 7 year old girl next to me noticed and told me to shut and man up. FML
Today, I had to deal with a snobby rich woman who asked me to cure her daughter's "unhealthy obsession" with playing outside instead of watching TV with the rest of the family. She called me a liar when I said playing outside is a normal thing for a 6 year-old child to do. FML
Today, I had to pick my daughter up from pre-school because she repeatedly hit another kid with a stick. Apparently, my parents have been letting her watch violent action movies again. FML
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Sir_Loin257 4
How is cinderella unrealistic? She drives a pumpkin seems perfectly realistic to me
lilhellian 27
17, So she can't have a personal opinion that is "correct" unless it follows your opinion? Hell at 10 years old I think it pretty smart she can comprehend that.
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bunhop74 16
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Kids these days.
cottoncandymango 17
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I lose more and more for this generation every single day. Anyone who doesn't like the movie "Cinderella" is wrong.
lilhellian 27
17, So she can't have a personal opinion that is "correct" unless it follows your opinion? Hell at 10 years old I think it pretty smart she can comprehend that.
TheDrifter 24
It's not so much comprehension, if she knows enough to give a lecture on it at 10, she's had that lecture drilled into her head at some point, likely by a family member's rants in the topic.
mn_shr 22
I wouldn't worry about Cinderella so much. I would be gravely concerned if she referred to Twilight as being more 'realistic'.
graceinsheepwear 34
#2, as a 16 year old, you ARE a kid these days.
Steve95401 49
#2 posted the same comment and got buried.
wonderfulrosie 13
17, You're reply makes a lot of sense seeing as your profile says you wanted to be alive in the 50s.
Zimmington 21
53- Well if you take into account Bella as a below average female and Edwards mismatched nipples then it balances out as... nope forget it... Twilight is gay
xlord 27
Clearly you are a total conformist to society!!!
Soniye 14
OP just got burned lol xD
Kaatosade 9
Think of the positives- at least she's been raised with a good set of morals! It's refreshing to hear of a little girl who is aware of such unrealistic social standards.
mackdeezy 22
You dont see that one everyday.
Sir_Loin257 4
How is cinderella unrealistic? She drives a pumpkin seems perfectly realistic to me
flockz 20
how about how a magical glass shoe that fits perfectly somehow falls off? mark that as pretty realistic.
rocker_chick105 31
And no one else in the kingdom has the same shoe size? That's how it always is.
ElementaryEdGuy 18
Call me an idiot, but wouldn't a glass shoe be awful to wear? I mean, if you step wrong, you would break it and cut your foot...right?
ottokat 15
No 33, dont be unrealistic. And hello guys! The mice and birds talk to her, and a guy she meets once decides to find her and marry her immediately. thats some realistic stuff right there.
mangoboy1 19
How about a talking snake? Oh wait wrong fairy tale.
Dawnstempest 17
@ 15 In the Cinder Maid stories (the ones that are very close to Cinderella), in one version the prince -- after the Cinder Maid escapes from the first two parties-- has the last step coated in honey, so when she steps in it while running (she forgot the deadline because she was having so much fun) her shoe falls off.
Noquisi 1
#33 : Actually, there's a huge controversy about whether the shoes are made of fur (which would make sense) or glass : in French, "verre" (glass) and "vair" (grey squirrel fur, basically) sound the same. Charles Perrault used the word "glass", while Honoré de Balzac rather chose "fur".
DWynter 11
Wait, did the kid ask for Cinderella, or did you just pick it at random? In either case, that kid's right about the unrealistic standards of beauty. Now if she'll just learn some tact.
TheMathMajor 26
Smart kid, haha
walkingspastic 22
Sounds like someone raised their kid right. Now hopefully she'll stay away from Twilight...
VeganVampyre 27
Of course she will. Twilight has unrealistic standards for beauty AND romance AND life. Three times as bad. Oh yeah, and the abusive relationship. Four times.
Welshite 40
I'm not gonna lie. I like all of the Disney movies, and was raised on them growing up. All of them are wonderful except Alice in Wonderland. That movie is horrifying.
ottokat 15
I dont know why theyre getting disliked for their opinion. besides, i agree. doesnt anyone remember the scene in Alice in Wonderland where the walrus and the carpenter lure the baby oysters away from their mother and eat them?
cmayer 20
"Little oysters, little oysters! But answer there came none And this was scarcely odd because They'd been eaten Every one" Alice in Wonderland has been my favorite since before I could comprehend movies. I'm sorry you don't like it, I wish everyone liked it. It's like watching a dream.
Enslaved 38
Who R U?
VeganVampyre 27
Actually it's like watching a bad drug trip...
Dawnstempest 17
@ 9 Twas brillig and the slivvy toves did guile and gimble in the wabe. Alice in Wonderland was a good movie.
Royalistic 8
This child will exploit Disney's faults
flashback.miss 28
Nostalgia Chick: the early years. That was a chance to engage in some intellectual debates on the times and culture of the setting Cinderella takes place in.