Talk:Cinderella

Power NPOV

I'm exceedingly surprised to see how little ground the gender police have been able to gain on this topic.~2026-10116-36 (talk) 23:44, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

The Cinderella story is much criticised for its negativetraditionalistic, approach to women.

while the first part certainly is true we don't need the author sticking in his own opinion here. Whdrilled into us as the ideal type of women for many decades now...that doesn't mean a modest quietly kind girl like Cinderella can't get her fair shake and come out on top too... Jarwulf 10:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

in the second cinderella moive her step mother broke the glass sliper in to pisis.

CENICIENTA: MUERTA MALAMENT Y DOLOROSAMENTE ASESINADA POR LA MISMISIMA BLANCA NIEVES POR AVERLE ROBADO EL NOVIO

ARA TE ENTERAS????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.176.161.201 (talk) 14:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

what about discussing the philosophcal aspects of the character of cinderella

What about discussing the philosophcal aspects of the character of cinderella, please take a look at sites like to see what i mean and then integrating into the main article.

Crystal?

Most people associate glass with crystal, so presumably that is why in a recent production by Kingswood Players, it was crystal slippers that Cinderella wore following her magical transformation, by her Fairy Godmother.

Regarding her name, my understanding was that the ugly sisters abbreviated from Cinderella to Cinders because she was forced to reside by the fire in the kitchen.

Richard C Bond Feb 2006

Earliest example?

Forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong, but would the old testament story of Joseph not be the earliest example of a Cinderella character? Significantly predating Rhodopis.

Anonymous, other than a fact of Joseph being male and not bedding the Pharaoh, there is the matter of what you mean by predating. Rhodopis lived in the 6th century BC. The Book of Genesis is considered to have been written during the Babylonian captivity of the 6th century BC or at (the latest) the 5th century BC. It is unclear which of the two rags to riches stories is the earlier one. Dimadick (talk) 17:27, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

The idea that Genesis was just made up by people in a brief period of exile is simply insane. What, like here's a nation with no backstory whatsoever, but they decide to invent stuff simply because their utterly insignificant nation got taken over? The story of Joseph is pivotal in connecting the early sojournings of the patriarchs to how the family ended up as slaves in Egypt. And of course Joseph is the father of two of the tribes of Israel. And you think that Jews (i.e. from Judah, the southern kingdom) just made up this story about the preeminence of another son long after the tribes other than Judah had largely lost significance? As to its similarities with Cinderella, they are obvious. It's not just rags to riches. It's nobility to servitude to (de facto) royalty. And it's a guy whose mother had died being persecuted by brothers from other mothers, yet he comes out on top.172.75.81.84 (talk) 15:33, 30 June 2025 (UTC)