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   From: coyo@darkdna.net   
      
   On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:13:29 -0700 (PDT)   
   luanne <222lufable222@gmail.com> wrote:   
      
   > I thought about that when I was re-reading Aesops fables.   
      
   "grimmification" can be fun if done well, but it isn't always done   
   well, and can come across at gratuitous. There are anthropologists who   
   claim that most of the brothers grimm tales are NOT the originals, and   
   that they made more innocuous children's stories darker and edgier as a   
   calculated marketing gimmick.   
      
   Just cause people are a lot more open about liking cute and fuzzy stuff   
   these days doesn't mean anything has really changed. The changing   
   society has allowed grown men to get away with openly liking cutesy   
   stuff.   
      
   One of my best friends, a gun-fur, openly likes both guns and my little   
   pony friendship is magic. He has his NRA membership badge and a   
   figurine of rainbow dash right next to each other on his keychain.   
      
   I guess that's his way of rejecting both groups' assertions that they   
   are mutually exclusive.   
      
   It's perfectly okay to appreciate cuteness, but also to do what it   
   takes to protect that cuteness, I guess is what he's trying to say. It   
   doesn't sound like anything new to me, but may be new to certain groups   
   who may not have a lot of background in history.   
      
   Guys, bone up on your history. It's important shit to know. If you want   
   to be capable of contributing to the society around you in any   
   meaningful way, you MUST know your history, the history of your family,   
   your people, your country, and the world around you. Gain and   
   appreciation of knowing how the world around you came to be what it is   
   today.   
      
   I can't stress that enough.   
      
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