Today to find some things to put in my blog I did a google.com image search to find something about little red riding hood like a cartoon to post and discuss. Little did I know when you type in little red riding hood in google images the second image to pop up is one of a scantily clad girl with a red cape. Why is it that this is the second image to come up in a search? The more I thought about it the more I started to make some connections with what we looked at in class today. If little red riding hood is a metaphor for sex and the wolf represents a man, it then follows that little red riding hood is in some respects and image of sex. What does "innocent" really mean in the context of a story revolving around the idea of sex? Does innocent imply that she is virginal because the woman above looks anything but. Why is it that seemingly innocent fairy tale characters are constnatly turned into skimpy halloween costumes? Is this what men picture when they read fairy tales? That all the women are standing aroung scantilly clad waiting for prince charming, or the wolf? Is there something sexy about the naive, innocent little red riding hood of todays modern stories? Is she in some way a dream girl? Blindly following the wolf into his trap, or the man into his bed? This image both confuses and intrigues me. In a fairy tale written by a woman would the girl turn into a silly sex object or something more?
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