Comments on: Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses Project http://stylefrizz.com/200906/dina-goldsteins-fallen-princesses-project/ Sat, 26 May 2012 16:50:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Adriana http://stylefrizz.com/200906/dina-goldsteins-fallen-princesses-project/comment-page-1/#comment-13140 Adriana Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:31:21 +0000 http://stylefrizz.com/?p=12632#comment-13140 My best girlfriend and I find this photos and vision very realistic. We both were never charmed by fairy tales though had our dreams of course. We found fairy tales often cruel and scary. On this photos the males that are portrayed doesn't look that happy either. Only Little Red Riding Hood ("Roodkapje" in my language) is kinda funny the rest is all about shattered dreams.....it happens all the time..... Ellington, that's a good point: men are always heroes...(not!). It looks if things have changed but I'm (or we in this case)afraid it still the same. But more hidden. We couldn't came up, like you, with female heroes such as you described. Or we have missed some important literature.....I swear all books I own about female "heroes" are about how brave, great women ended up killed, desperate or dead because of shattered dreams even the ones by Simone de Beauvoir! Not even Scarlett O'Hara is a good example, she had Tara's red earth....... On the other hand no woman (as far as I know, help me out if I'm wrong) has created such heroes herself. After all Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby are written by men. So we can't blame men or society really do we? My best girlfriend and I find this photos and vision very realistic. We both were never charmed by fairy tales though had our dreams of course. We found fairy tales often cruel and scary.
On this photos the males that are portrayed doesn’t look that happy either. Only Little Red Riding Hood (“Roodkapje” in my language) is kinda funny the rest is all about shattered dreams…..it happens all the time…..

Ellington, that’s a good point: men are always heroes…(not!). It looks if things have changed but I’m (or we in this case)afraid it still the same. But more hidden. We couldn’t came up, like you, with female heroes such as you described. Or we have missed some important literature…..I swear all books I own about female “heroes” are about how brave, great women ended up killed, desperate or dead because of shattered dreams even the ones by Simone de Beauvoir!
Not even Scarlett O’Hara is a good example, she had Tara’s red earth…….
On the other hand no woman (as far as I know, help me out if I’m wrong) has created such heroes herself. After all Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby are written by men. So we can’t blame men or society really do we?

]]> By: Ellington http://stylefrizz.com/200906/dina-goldsteins-fallen-princesses-project/comment-page-1/#comment-13118 Ellington Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:28:22 +0000 http://stylefrizz.com/?p=12632#comment-13118 It is interesting and provoking, but why is that the women are shown as downtrodden and broken by their dreams? In this portrayal I find it sexist in a backward way. Its as if there is no balance and no path of eventual joy for these women. They are being punished for dreaming of happily ever after or even wanting it. To this I say Fie! I am not saying that there is a happily ever after but to deny it outright is a tad harsh. When men's dreams are portrayed as dashed or broken it is considered tragic and a heart rendering event, this has been expressed in literature (ie The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick) to name but two classical pieces of literature. But when classical Fairy Tale women princesses are portrayed as broken it tends to have a "she got what she deserved" feel to it,or that they are false and not true heroines like the men are considered heroes. That is my take on these photos. I wonder what others think? It is interesting and provoking, but why is that the women are shown as downtrodden and broken by their dreams? In this portrayal I find it sexist in a backward way. Its as if there is no balance and no path of eventual joy for these women. They are being punished for dreaming of happily ever after or even wanting it. To this I say Fie!
I am not saying that there is a happily ever after but to deny it outright is a tad harsh. When men’s dreams are portrayed as dashed or broken it is considered tragic and a heart rendering event, this has been expressed in literature (ie The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick) to name but two classical pieces of literature. But when classical Fairy Tale women princesses are portrayed as broken it tends to have a “she got what she deserved” feel to it,or that they are false and not true heroines like the men are considered heroes. That is my take on these photos. I wonder what others think?

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