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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Comments (71)
buddy51 23
Sounds like the 10 yo has a more mature social conscience that you do, OP. Shame on you for reinforcing 1950's based cultural stereotypes....
Kazeran 9
This
djinnyf 12
This is not right either... If the kid is using her brains, she can watch all kinds if things, and talk about her feelings afterwards... Repression is never a good thing....
imonkeyface 9
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...what kind of kid doesn't like Disney movies?
graffitied_love 20
Not Disney movies: Just Disney's version of Cinderella. In the Brothers Grimm's' story of Cinderella, her step-sisters are equally as beautiful as her, there are 3 balls instead of just 1, birds help her instead of a fairy God mother, she walks to the ball, she loses a golden slipper, and her step-sisters cut off part of their feet in order to fit into the gold slipper. These are just a few differences from the Brothers Grimm's version, not even considering cultural differences in different countries.
flashback.miss 28
@ 24--> + 1
ottokat 15
Exactly! And in The Brother Grimm version of Goldilocks, the bears torture and kill her. Disney really skewed the real stories into something girly, cute and boring. Except for Mulan, the Disney Princesses/Girls are generic and do actually spread a false image. I for one will never understand why Cinderella after the ball is somehow prettier than she was before just with fancy items.
katamine 17
I've never liked them personally! I always thought it was just really unrealistic and boring
FaygoAndMiracles 18
@55: Beauty and the Beast is pretty good, too. It takes them possibly months or years to fall in love, and, while she is pretty, she isn't over-the-top, and she cares about things besides finding the perfect man.
ottokat 15
Very true. And The Princess and the Frog is a good one, too.
Latino_Nino 10
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Don't worry OP, she'll probably forget what she said in about 10 minutes.
syki 22
She's 10, not a goldfish.
Enslaved 38
Goldfish are very stupid animals, with a memory span of just 5 seconds. It takes only 4.5 seconds to read this question. Could a goldfish answer this question?
ImAFaker 29
A goldfish wouldn't be able to watch the movie. Or remember it to complain about it.
graceinsheepwear 34
45, as someone who has raised goldfish, that is a misperception. I have known goldfish to remember a trigger at least a day later. Also, goldfish on the whole hate answering questions.
Enslaved 38
Kudos if she thought that up herself. Most likely-- she's just good at parroting at a young age.
traumtzd 16
^ This. A thousand times this. I hate when kids act all smart, but actually they are just parrots, then the crowd of silly adults jump clapping.
FrankHotpants 31
Smart kid, Disney movies have unrealistic lessons and perceptions of woman and what they should be like or do for a man.
sarahhiiwantt 16
Kids these days! They can't even appreciate Disney :/
ottokat 15
Yeah! How dare they not share your likes and dislikes! Grumble grumble grumble no faith in this generation grumble...
Wizardo 34
Well its clear she has a strong, perceptive mind and she already has advanced morals and political and gender views, this kid for president!
colvindj 22
Well you gotta give her credit, she knows what she's talking about..kinda
nflhomeboy 7
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She is probably one of those extreme feminists who will later conform like everyone else by still trying to look her best. Which is not a bad thing. Not a bad thing at all
wallandpiece 16
Smooth.
clubcoffee 9
Please **** off, 30
lastday27 10
Those standards may be unrealistic but it is healthy to think about 'what if'