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Once there were tnree little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their environment. Using materials which were indigenous to the area, they each built a beautiful house... One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry m both a physical and ideological sense. When the pigs saw the wolf, they run into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, «Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!»

The pigs shouted back, «Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture».

But the wolf wasn't to be denied what he thought was. his manifest destiny. So he huffed and puffed and blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot pursuit. Where the house of straw had stood, other wolves bought iip the land and started a banana plantation.

At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, «Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!»

The pigs shouted back, «Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!»

At this, the wolf chuckled condescendingly. He thought to himself: «They are so childlike in their ways. It will be a shame to see them go, but progress cannot be stopped».

So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks stood, other wolves built a time-share condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fiberglass reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkeling, and dolphin shows.

At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, «Little pigs, little pigs, (et me in!»

This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.

By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the situation from the carnivore's point of view. So he huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over dead from a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods. The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. This new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf-oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to medale in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care, and affordable housing for everyone.

Please note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.

Snow White

Once there was a young princess who was not at all unpleasant to look at and had a temperament that many found to be more pleasant than most other people's. Her nickname was Snow White, indicating of the discriminatory notions of associating pleasant or attractive qualities with light, and unpleasant or unattractive qualities with darkness. Thus, at an early age Snow White was an unwitting if fortunate target for this type ofcolorist thinking.

Белоснежка

Жила-была одна молоденькая принцесса, которая была вовсе не неприятна на вид, и характер у нее был такой, что многие признавали его лучшим, чем у других. Ее называли Белоснежкой, что указывает на укоренившееся дискриминационное предубеждение— ассоциировать приятные или привлекательные свойства со светом, а неприятные или непривлекательные качества — с темнотой. Таким образом, с раннего возраста Белоснежка была невольной, хоть и удачливой мишенью для подобного мышления — дискриминации по цвету кожи.

Cinderella

There once lived a young wommon named Cinderella, whose natural birth-mother had died when Cinderella was but a child. A few years after, her father married a widow with two older daughters. Cinderella's mother-of-step treated her very cruelly, and her sisters-of-step made her work very hard, as if she were their own personal unpaid laborer.

One day an invitation arrived at their house. The prince was celebrating his exploitation of the dispossessed and marginalized peasantry by throwing a fancy dress ball. Cinderella's sisters-of-step were very excited to be invited to the palace. They began to plan the expensive clothes they would use to alter and enslave their natural body images to emulate an unrealistic standard of feminine beauty. (It was especially unrealistic in their case, as they were differently vfsaged enough to stop a clock.) Her mother-of-step also planned to go to the ball, so Cinderella was working harder than a dag (an appropriate if unfortunately speciesest metaphor).

Золушка

Жила-была молодая женщина по имени Золушка, чья природная мать умерла, когда Золушка была еще ребенком. Несколько лет спустя ее отец женился на вдове с двумя более взрослыми дочерьми. Мачеха Золушки обращалась с ней очень жестоко, а сводные сестры заставляли ее трудиться до седьмого пота, как будто она была их личным неоплачиваемым работником.

Однажды в дом прислали приглашение. Принц решил в честь эксплуатации неимущего и маргинального крестьянства устроить бал-карнавал. Сводных сестер Золушки очень взволновало это приглашение во дворец. Они стали обдумывать дорогие наряды, для того чтобы изменить свой природный образ в подражание реально не существующему стандарту женской красоты. (Это было особенно нереально в их случае, так как они были столь нестандартной внешности, что от их вида могли остановиться часы.) Ее мачеха тоже собиралась поехать на бал, так что Золушке пришлось вертеться как белке в колесе (подходящая метафора, но, к сожалению, некорректная по отношению к виду животных).

Jack and the Beanstalk

Once upon a time, on a little farm, there lived a boy named Jack. He lived on farm with his mother, and they were very excluded from the normal circles of economic activity. This cruel reality kept them -in straits of direness, until one day Jack's mother told him to take the family cow into town and sell it for as much as he could.

Never mind the thousands of gallons of milk they had stolen from her! Never mind the hours of pleasure their animal companion had provided! And forget about the manure they had appropriated for their garden! She was now just another piece of property to them. Jack, who didn't realize that nonhuman animal have as many rights as human animals — perhaps even more — did as his mother asked.

On his way to town, Jack met an old magic vegetarian, who warned Jack of the dangers of eating beef and dairy products.

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