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...viewers did watch - more than 20 million an episode - particularly women, who made up 63% of the adult audience in the first two weeks. So it's hard not to see the show's success as a comment on TV, and maybe society. Reality shows like The Bachelor and The Swan - one area of TV targeted to women - are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids...
...World Adult Kickball Association has 20,000 playing members. A new campus spin-off: Frisbee kickball, with a disk in place of a ball
Though they contain prominent references to magic, the adult stories are not so much fairy tales as sensational bits of gossip. Tatar says this points very clearly to the fact that fairy tales “had their origins in a culture of adult storytelling,” spreading bits of news across the country in much the way TV or even pornography does so today...
Some of the adult stories are grisly and disturbing, such as “The Jew in Brambles,” about a Jew who is forced to dance in a thorn patch and is later hanged. “[These stories] are so incredibly different from what we’re familiar with,” Tatar says. “But they’re still widely anthologized in a sort of mindless way.” “The Jew in the Brambles,” for example, has recently been included in a collection...
...this afternoon’s talk, Tatar will discuss the importance of childhood reading’s excitement and revelation. Like the magic amulets within them, fairy tales are “an enabling mechanism.” By creating a link to literacy and knowledge of the adult word, they “allow one to escape socioeconomic realities through education,” she says...