Bedtime Stories: Little Red Riding Hood

So, I thought this version was fairly funny, not the funniest (because that one was incredibly sexual and I didn’t want anyone to judge me for posting that one ahaha) but none the less, interesting. It was an interesting twist to propose that LRRH had obsessive compulsive disorder for constantly wearing her red cape. The origins of the cape had nothing to do with Granny and her love for LRRH. LRRH is pictured quite autonomously here. She is clearly old enough to accurately survey her surroundings and hormonally speaking, she acts like a teen. She doesn’t like being told what do; she barely likes people. The prevailing sense of geriatric contagion is discussed and her fear of the woods is not because of predatory animals, but of bugs crawling up her legs into her vagina. (Pause) When she meets the wolf, she isn’t scared or over friendly like other versions; she’s a little defensive, crude and attitudinal. Not the polite etiquette that mom imparts to LRRH before she leaves for Granny’s in other versions. She is very practical about the wolf’s activities and brushes him off. Granny actually dies in this version but at the same time, LRRH immediately notices that Wolf Granny isn’t really Granny. She isn’t fooled, the strip tease is null, and the superhuman (except it’s actually very human power) and political mind of LRRH leads her to get the wolf castrated instead of her killing him. So the element of controlling the predatory male is still prevalent but the girl is responsible for this decision, it is not another male who comes to save her. There are several references to retards and idiots which is slightly disturbing but still sort of funny. The castration of the wolf is met with ambivalence by LRRH when she sees that the vet isn’t capable of properly neutering the wolf (and thus controlling his desires by showing him the repercussions of his actions) but ultimately, in the age of technology she can, hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil by turning her head and blasting music on her ipod. Maternal and paternal figures play virtually no role in the story. LRRH just has common sense and can be viewed as well intentioned as she wasn’t trying to kill the wolf. Just an overall different version of the story we grew up with.