For the duration of this article, we are going be using “feminist” as a transitive verb. Beauty and the Beast trailer beats Fifty Shades as most viewed in 24 hours Read moreEmma Watson has feministed up Beauty and the Beast, addressing the question of what Belle actually does all day. We have pretty good intel on the dad, who was an inventor – and as for the Beast himself, it is a full-time job being so ugly. For the record – and yes, I’ve been thinking about this all year, now – if you wanted to feminist up Sleeping Beauty, you’d have to keep her awake. In fact, the outliers – Ursula in The Little Mermaid, the uninvited fairy in Sleeping Beauty – demonstrate that the real theme is the dark and everlasting energy of a woman’s envy.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2016 09:30 UTC