Writing an anti-cinderella story for children, I wanted to really make it effective in teaching children about sexism and equality between males and females. I changed the story first by having cinderella live with her mother, who travelled a lot for work. The mother brought back a stepfather and stepbrothers for cinderella. When cinderella's mother disappears on a work trip, she is left alone to grow up with her stepfather and stepbrothers. They force her to be more womanly, only perform "woman" chores. Cinderella really wants to play sports and be a soccer star. Instead of the classic ball and glass slippers, I turned the ball in to a soccer tournament looking for the next soccer star, and her slippers into glass cleats. Her fairy godmother transforms her into a golden jersey and she plays in the tournament. She beats out all the boys and wins the contest. At midnight she dashes for home and loses a glass cleat. The team comes looking for their next star and fins it in cinderella when she fits the glass cleat.
I really wanted to show children that woman can do anything men can do. Woman can have high demanding jobs that take them away from their families sometimes and woman can play sports. Cinderella overcame the teasing from her stepbrothers and the reprimanding of her stepfather to become to the next soccer star. I wanted to express that though the world can be very much male dominated, woman need to make their own way. I wanted to both young girls and boys to take from this because young girls need to know they can and young boys need to know young girls can.
