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To simply have access to a lot of books? Sure, that's why I support public libraries.
To be held in captivity by an enraged asshole? No. Nothing about Beauty and the Beast is good for women. Least of all the brainwashing it does to convince young girls to love horrible wealthy men and try to fix them via codependency and tolerate financial and emotional abuse.
See Mickey Mouse Monopoly documentary for analysis on Disney movies and the themes they push (VERY hard to search up, here's a link https://youtu.be/WDwYOBJLZdg )
I said this about Disney in [email protected] recently. And sleeping beauty couldn't consent!!
It's way worse in the original story.
It's a cursed thorn that keeps her asleep. Prince comes along and rapes her in her sleep. Then leaves her pregnant and still unconscious.
Nine months later she gives birth. The baby crawls up searching for a nipple and starts nursing on her finger. It sucks the thorn out of her finger lifting the curse and she wakes up.
All those old fairy tales have one single core lesson for children: stranger danger!
In that light, the original Sleeping Beauty plot makes sense. Don’t get shit-faced and pass out at a house party around a bunch of horny drunk randos. Most of the guys there might be decent and honorable, but it only takes one horrible creep.
That is, sadly, a better outcome lesson than waking up to a gentle kiss from a kind and handsome prince, no?