Userpers!
Are my eyes deceiving me? I think I just saw Cinderella and her beloved fairy Godmother in an ad for the Swiffer Wet Jet. Another part of my childhood just slipped through the cracks and became part of mass commercialism.
The ad isn't even logical. Cinderella never would have had a wet jet and here's why. Her stepmother (Lady Tremaine) made her do rough chores out of spite. The wicked woman hated that Cinderella was more beautiful than her stepsisters and wouldn't have given her something to make the tasks easier. When Cinderella made a wish it wasn't to get out of the chores, it was to have someone love her like when her father was alive. She wouldn't have been happy working as a drudge in her stepmother's kitchen even if she had a wet jet. ~Sigh~ I should write a scathing letter to Procter & Gamble.
Walt Disney must be turning in his grave - or rotating in his cryogenic chamber.
posted by Cali Girl @ 3:50 PM
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Cinderella would have had to keep that wet jet hidden. And then that evil bitch would have found it and broken it for sure!
Ads aren't like real life at all.
Um, also, Cinderella is a *Princess* now. She doesn't do chores. She has a sweet androgynous relationship with the Prince that involves them staring into eachothers eyes during sunsets. If those damn marketers *gave* a crap, they would put the swiffer into the hands of the stepmother and stepsisters, as they had to take over the chores in the end...
*huff*
That's what happed in Ever After: A Cinderella Story. The one mean stepsister and the truly horrible stepmother ended up doing laundry in the castle.
You're right...they're ruining the story. Protest sister!!
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