Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and all fairy tales princesses have in common – a handsome, gentle and brave prince charming. Every girl dreams of being like them, but as the story books close, those fairy tales remain to be plain fantasies.
From the simple, gentle and very modest images of women in those fairy tales, the reality now shows different women leveling up with men. Can you just imagine Cinderella and her Prince Charming doing the same job? What about if Rapunzel was aggressive enough to go down the tower and not lay down her long hair to be rescued? Will their Prince Charmings still be needed in the stories?
In our society, there are certain traditions expected from both men and women. Filipino culture tells us that men should court women and they must work harder. But now, courtship falls back on body language, a form of non-verbal communication understood by both sexes.
According to Allan Pease, author of The Definitive Guide to Body Language, what really turns men on is female “submission” gestures, which include exposing vulnerable areas such as the wrists or neck, as well as the leg twine (it involves crossing the legs and hooking the upper leg’s foot behind the lower leg’s ankle). Men typically make themselves look more dominant by taking up space and engaging in “crotch display” – thumbs hooked in pockets, fingers “pointing” at their genitals.
Present day Prince Charmings are not what fairy tales describe and tells them to be. They do not ride horses and travel through the woods, fight a ferocious dragon and rescue princesses from a tower. Some of them simply sit and enjoy their lives to the fullest. Why? Because every Prince Charming has a Peter Pan in them. They always want to go back to Neverlands where they can just fly and play and never grow up.
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