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Slash Break.

Welcome to The Waves.

Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and the grim side of happily ever after.

Every episode of The Waves, you get a new feminist to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds.

And today you've got me, Laura Miller, a books and culture columnist for slate.

One of the things we're going to be talking about is fairy tales.

Fairy tales, like myths, are the oldest form of human storytelling.

And they have always been closely linked to women.

The great 19th century collectors of fairy tales, like the brothers,

grim, presented them as stories for children,

stories passed on by grandmothers and nursemaids and aunties.

But today, folklorists believe that traditional stories like these were met

for a mixed audience of adults and children.

The use of fairy tales to entertain and teach is something that has endured throughout the ages.

And there's a reason we keep getting big screen adaptations of stories like Cinderella

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