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On September 5, 2007 bettyt Discussed
Raising the Roof
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“…EMHE feels curiously closer to Cinderella than to, say, Horatio Alger…”
By this I guess you mean that while Horatio Alger counseled young men to work hard to achieve the American dream, Cinderella’s more feminine approach was to simply wait around for a fairy godmother to save her? Cinderella was enslaved, dudes, and she worked her butt off. The prince was a reward for hard work and a good attitude. But perhaps you consider housekeeping to be women’s work and therefore not real work? Sorry to get so annoyed about something that’s not the central point of your article, but, *dang.*
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“…EMHE feels curiously closer to Cinderella than to, say, Horatio Alger…”
By this I guess you mean that while Horatio Alger counseled young men to work hard to achieve the American dream, Cinderella’s more feminine approach was to simply wait around for a fairy godmother to save her? Cinderella was enslaved, dudes, and she worked her butt off. The prince was a reward for hard work and a good attitude. But perhaps you consider housekeeping to be women’s work and therefore not real work? Sorry to get so annoyed about something that’s not the central point of your article, but, *dang.*