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Fairy Tale Protagonists are Evil

  Fairy tales are short, but sweet tales parents tell to their children to kickstart their imagination from a young age and interest them in reading. Most children's media features likable, good-hearted protagonists that you'd want to root for over the evil villains. The thing is... most fairytale protagonists are either really dumb or straight-up assholes. Today, we're only covering the latter, to not make this more of a brick wall than it already is.  Take Goldilocks and the Three Bears, for example. A classic fairytale about a young girl with golden hair named Goldilocks breaking into the house of a family of three bears while they're out doing... bear things. Then, she eats all of their food, breaks all of their chairs and sleeps in all of their beds. Then. the bears catch her, and she runs away never to be seen again.   By the way, Goldilocks is supposed to be the protagonist of the story. After all , everyone knows that people who break in to a stranger's hous