Unfiltered Story #56818

(I discuss popular movies with my colleagues. One of my coworkers is a big Disney fan. At that moment “Frozen” came out.)

Coworker: Disney is really improving on the gender roles in the movie, so the men is sometimes weak and needs to be saved by a woman, or women have different connections as they used to be. I think, it is something special that a woman is not only the lead but the hero too. Like in Frozen.

Me: But Disney had movies which had female heroes and leads. And besides: In the original story it is also a woman, Gerda in that case, who is looking for Kai and is rescuing him from the snow queen.

Other Colleague: [My name], please be quiet and don’t reveal everything. I haven’t seen the movie yet.

Me: I havn’t seen it yet either. I am just retelling the fairytale the movie is based on.

Other Colleague: What fairytale?

Me: “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen.

Other Colleague: There is a fairytale?