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George Gilder, Sexual Suicide

Snow-white’s biological mother was a passive, good

queen who sat at her window and did embroidery.

She pricked her finger one day —no doubt an event in

her life —and 3 drops o f blood fell from it onto the

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snow. Somehow that led her to wish for a child “as white

as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the

embroidery frame.” 1 Soon after, she had a daughter

with “skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and

hair as black as ebony. ” 2 Then, she died.

A year later, the king married again. His new wife

was beautiful, greedy, and proud. She was, in fact,

ambitious and recognized that beauty was coin in the

male realm, that beauty translated directly into power

because it meant male admiration, male alliance, male

devotion.

The new queen had a magic mirror and she would

ask it: “Looking-glass upon the wall, Who is fairest

of us all? ” 3 And inevitably, the queen was the fairest

(had there been anyone fairer we can presume that the

king would have married her).

One day the queen asked her mirror who the fairest

was, and the mirror answered: “Queen, you are full

fair, *tis true, But Snow-white fairer is than you. ” 4

Snow-white was 7 years old.

The queen became “yellow and green with envy,

and from that hour her heart turned against Snow-

white, and she hated her. And envy and pride like ill

weeds grew in her heart higher every day, until she had

no peace.. . . ” 5

Now, we all know what nations will do to achieve

peace, and the queen was no less resourceful (she would

have made an excellent head o f state). She ordered a

huntsman to take Snow-white to the forest, kill her, and

bring back her heart. The huntsman, an uninspired

good guy, could not kill the sweet young thing, so he

turned her loose in the forest, killed a boar, and took its

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heart back to the queen. T h e heart was “salted and

cooked, and the wicked woman ate it up, thinking that

there was an end o f Snow-white. ” 6

Snow-white found her way to the home o f the 7

dwarfs, who told her that she could stay with them “if

you will keep our house for us, and cook, and wash, and

make the beds, and sew and knit, and keep everything

tidy and clean. ” 7 T hey simply adored her.

T h e queen, who can now be called with conviction

the wicked queen, found out from her mirror that Snow-

white was still alive and fairer than she. She tried several

times to kill Snow-white, who fell into numerous deep

sleeps but never quite died. Finally the wicked queen

made a poisoned apple and induced the ever vigilant

Snow-white to bite into it. Snow-white did die, or became more dead than usual, because the wicked queen’s mirror then verified that she was the fairest in the land.

T h e dwarfs, who loved Snow-white, could not bear

to bury her under the ground, so they enclosed her in a

glass coffin and put the coffin on a mountaintop. T h e

heroic prince was just passing that way, immediately

fell in love with Snow-white-under-glass, and bought

her (it? ) from the dwarfs who loved her (it? ). As servants

carried the coffin along behind the prince’s horse, the

piece o f poisoned apple that Snow-white had swallowed

“flew out o f her throat. ” 8 She soon revived fully, that

is to say, not much. T he prince placed her squarely in

the “it” category, and marriage in its proper perspective

too, when he proposed wedded bliss —“ I would rather

have you than anything in the world. ” 9 T he wicked

queen was invited to the wedding, which she attended

because her mirror told her that the bride was fairer

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than she. At the wedding “they had ready red-hot iron

shoes, in which she had to dance until she fell down

dead. ” 10

Cinderella’s mother-situation was the same. Her

biological mother was good, pious, passive, and soon

dead. Her stepmother was greedy, ambitious, and ruthless. Her ambition dictated that her own daughters make good marriages. Cinderella meanwhile was forced

to do heavy domestic work, and when her work was

done, her stepmother would throw lentils into the ashes

of the stove and make Cinderella separate the lentils

from the ashes. The stepmother’s malice toward Cinderella was not free-floating and irrational. On the contrary, her own social validation was contingent on

the marriages she made for her own daughters. Cinderella was a real threat to her. Like Snow-white’s stepmother, for whom beauty was power and to be the most beautiful was to be the most powerful, Cinderella’s

stepmother knew how the social structure operated,

and she was determined to succeed on its terms.

Cinderella’s stepmother was presumably motivated

by maternal love for her own biological offspring. Maternal love is known to be transcendent, holy, noble, and unselfish. It is coincidentally also a fundament of

human (male-dominated) civilization and it is the real

basis of human (male-dominated) sexuality:

[When the prince began to search for the woman whose

foot would fit the golden slipper] the two sisters were

very glad, because they had pretty feet. The eldest

went to her room to try on the shoe, and her mother

stood by. But she could not get her great toe into it,

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for the shoe was too small; then her mother handed

her a knife, and said,

“Cut the toe off, for when you are queen you will

never have to go on foot. ” So the girl cut her toe off,

and squeezed her foot into the shoe, concealed the

pain, and went down to the prince. Then he took her

with him on his horse as his bride. . . .

Then the prince looked at her shoe, and saw the

blood flowing. And he turned his horse round and

took the false bride home again, saying that she was

not the right one, and that the other sister must try

on the shoe. So she went into her room to do so, and

got her toes comfortably in, but her heel was too large.

Then her mother handed her the knife, saying, “Cut

a piece off your heel; when you are queen you will

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