Fairytales. No wonder we're so corrupt.

After a history class with the wonderfully inspiring ms C  I can't get the topic of Fairytales ( particularly the brothers Grimm versions) out of my head. It never really struck me how corrupt the stpries actually are. Take Hansel and Gretel for example. The topics that the story mainly deal with were the topical problems of the 12th century. Famine , Child Abandonement, and cannibalism. These were the stories that were included in the childhood of most children around the world, though there are of course variations of each story. It has really made me ask the question whether or not these are the stories that we should be telling future generations, and then it hit me , These are the stories that I grew up with , my mother grew up with and my grandmother grw up with, and it didnt do us any harm :P