Red Riding hood

Red Riding hood
You're a such silly girl to trust the wolf
Didn't your mother used to say..don't talk to strangers
The forest is full of dangerous and eerie things
And monsters often preying on females

Walk in the dark forest by yourself
A foolish option, unnecessary risk of life
Predators waiting, perverts expecting, maniacs in search of
Naive, incautious girls, gathering flowers and berries
They vanish in thin air every year...without a trace

Red Riding hood
You're a bad example for young women
Your story had a happy end, not in real life, alas
Sex traffickers and pedophiles are not phantoms
Roaming the spirit world, but real, existing people
Not thinking twice when money and the sex drive knock at the door

Small wonder that both versions of this folktale
Were written by men...no woman can come up
With such an inconsistent plot....no mother would sent her daughter
To wander aimlessly in the woods

by Margaret Gudkov