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@Sexy Homunculus, whats a neet?
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@Cuactemoc4919, NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", refers to a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training. That's the Wikipedia definition
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@Sexy Homunculus, women back then while not working usually handled the home finances, raised children did house work by hand (no appliances). They were literal homemakers and did a great deal of work to keep up the home while their husband went to work from dawn to dusk.
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In beasts defense,, “based on the fairy tale & my not so good memory””. The fairy/ witch lady - cursed the prince because he wouldn’t allow her to enter his castle…. The prince was like 9 years old at the time. “Sorry miss; I’m 9 & I’m not going to let you in my castle. I don’t know you/ stranger danger.” “Ohh your not gonna let me in, 9 year old child, then I’ll curse you. “”
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@Monter408, he did have a castle full of other people. The ridiculous thinking is that a 9 y.o. prince would answer the door.
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I always hated Beauty and the Beast. The story is one without any heroes. The witch is the real villain of the story, cursing a child and all of the staff for doing the sensible thing and refusing entrance to a stranger in the night. We never learn where the king and queen were during this, either, implying that a child prince was left alone with the staff, who couldn’t be bothered to get the door in the middle of the night, leaving the prince vulnerable to any number of threats, including bandits, kidnappers, revolutionaries, and apparently witches. The witch is never seen again either, meaning no justice is done on someone who thinks that coming to people’s homes in the dead of night and stripping everyone in their household of their humanity is an okay thing to do. Furthermore, Beast blackmails Belle into staying with her by threatening her father’s life. He was an older man, and being forced to stay there forever would have killed him.
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So we end up with a ‘love’ between a monstrous traumatized manchild and a kidnap victim groomed by servants whose return to humanity depended on her falling in love with their master, who is understandably bitter and resentful about being abandoned by his parents, turned into a monster, and being given a ticking clock with an almost impossible to achieve condition before the curse becomes unremovable. All of this culminating in a fight with the local douchebag who from his perspective sees the beautiful but weird local girl being kidnapped by and brainwashed into loving a literal monster, and the first time in his life that he actually goes beyond himself and his ego driven lifestyle to help someone else, dies for it. Then the ‘happy’ ending shows everyone returning to humanity with no regard for the psychological scarring and after effects (not to mention that the French Revolution took place only a few years later and chances are good Adam ended up on a guillotine).
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@I Are Lebo, you're forgetting Gaston's redeeming feature. He is a jerk and kind of dumb (academically). And though he does value her beauty as well, he likes the smart (academically), kind, gentle girl. Though he acts selfishly (like most in his era), he knows his faults and would give his children as much advantage as possible.
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@werp zerp snickel, it is interesting he went after the smart one as there were three beautiful blondes fawning over him that he easily could have gone after instead.
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But belle had a choice and she didn’t like him, he had three hot chicks all ready to enter a polyamory relationship with him
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@megamanx181x, 3 nickels is more than a dime.
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@Cuactemoc4919, ooooo snap
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@Cuactemoc4919, yeah, but those other 3 girls were dimes lol
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@megamanx181x, didnt he say something like Belle is the best, and he deserves the best.
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@Albatraous, I’m sure he did with that ego of his
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Gaston is literally an incel "nice guy" throwing a hissy fit over the fact that the cute nerdy girl chose the "bad boy" over him. All he's missing is a fedora to tip.
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@SimonPetrikov, you don’t know what incel means. There were three blondes ready to throw themselves at Gaston. He’s not an incel.
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@Soser5, Three cute blondes throwing themselves at him but he throws a hissy fit the moment a woman tells him "no." So maybe "incel" is inaccurate but he definitely has the attitude of one.
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But I'm wondering what they were like in the original version of the story before Disney got their hands on it.
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@Hagasay, no Gaston, Beauty is the youngest daughter of a merchant. When her dad goes on a trip he asks his daughters if they want gifts. The eldest girls ask for expensive crap, but Beauty just wants a rose. Merchant plucks a Rose from a rosebush in front of a castle, and the Beast shows up threatening to kill him for stealing unless he is given the man's daughter as a bride. Beauty goes, is treated rather well and is allowed 2 weeks to visit her family. The sisters convince her to stay an extra week hoping the beast will get mad and kill Beauty. She returns late and finds the beast has died of heartbreak. She kisses him, he resurrects as a handsome prince, the end
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@Secale, I’ve never read the cliff notes version of beauty and the beast before, thanks kind stranger
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@Secale, thanks. That sounds like something worth watching.
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#gastondidnothingwrong
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When does beast become a jerk right after becoming human? I don't recall the reference
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@butthole bread, the straight to DVD sequel
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@I Are Lebo, oh right on. Yeah I never saw that one. Thanks
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Uh no. How many people get divorses? The guy was no good. Belle became a better person, and she justified in saving everyone after getting kidnapped when realized its just that, and, well, no murder spree so… and trapped people. Look the modern view is just dumb. All those people would have died because someone wanted to play hero, but just play kill crap and get praised for it. No one cares about freaking ‘hero’s’ who chop off heads for glory and tallies. He was not justified in becoming a murder hobo because enough stuff was checked off of a checklist, and now he can put his finger in his ears and kill. She had every right to become an actual hero. Ypu can start on a kill quest, but you are under every obligation to change your mind and investigate when you find out the facts. He may have the right to start to try to kill the beast, but you still have to investigate.
I think in the 1700s virtually every common woman was an NEET since women didn’t have equal rights or opportunities back then.