Most Terrifying Video You Will Ever See.
From hansel25.
I have this new gig at a music school, and one of the things I do is to teach foreign domestic workers how to play the guitar.
Sometimes they finger chords wrongly, and I move their fingers to place them on the correct frets.
They apologise profusely, and I tell them with a wave of my hand not to worry, that they are doing fine - and I’m not lying, because they are.
But when I see their hands, and I look at my own, I feel like apologising profusely to them, for I feel so embarrassed.
Because when I look at their hands, I see years and years of hard work and toil; their hands have been rubbed coarse and dry from constant use, the ridges and lines on their fingers like the whorls on the cross-section of a tree’s trunk.
And when I look at my hands, all I see are smooth, moisturised hands that extend lithe, well-manicured digits, and I realise I have not known real hardship before.
That’s why I am so embarrassed, and I try not to wave my hands about in class too much lest my students one day see them and think any lesser of me.
IMHOFri, 08 June 2007 9:06 pm
Characters like Snow White and Rapunzel were portrayed in a negative light - as demanding, unreasonable, impatient and manipulative characters, totally different from the virtuous, pure, sacrificial and long-suffering characters that we know them to be in the original fairy tales.
To innocent young children, this may put confusion in their minds as to what their fairy tale heroines are truly like. Should they continue to admire them and embrace the virtues they portray?
Brian Tan Cheow Eng, Shrek 3 not suitable for children.
OMG, Brian Ku Ku Cheow.
Not only do you need a bit more education, but you are such a chauvinist piglet.
Fairy-tales have long demeaned women and movies like Shrek help to fracture the perceived stereotypes of how women should behave through satire and parody.
I hope for your children’s sake they do not grow up to be like you.
