The Fairytale We All Deserved to Hear

(click on the poem's image to read it)

I know it's rather odd to equate so many things to episodes of Sex and the City, but this particular adult fairytale really reminded me of a scene from that show. Charlotte poses the theory that, deep down, what women really want is to be rescued, and it serves as the theme for that episode. 

Later, as Carrie is shown writing her column, she speaks to the camera, saying: "Is it true? DO women really just want to be rescued? Or would Sleeping Beauty eventually gotten up, scored a great job with a health care package, bought a home, and gotten a baby from her neighborhood sperm-bank?" 

Its quite a dilemma. In a way, don't all people want to be rescued? I mean, no one has the answers to life's great questions, and who in their right mind actually enjoys working so much harder than they have to? It just is not a mentality which should necessarily be assigned to women. I know many many men out there, waiting around for their sugar-mama. 

There's nothing inherantly wrong with the desire to be rescued from your measly human existence, I believe that the problem begins when the desire to be saved clouds your self-respect so much that you would listen to the frog hitting on you in the bar, go back to his castle, and agree to become his lifelong maid. That's the part of the story that truly could use some re-telling.