1. For centuries, male poets have mourned the transience of female pulchritude.
2. Their own sags and jowls remain unlamented.
3. In the original, Snow White is seven years old when she surpasses her stepmother’s beauty.
4. When Snow White finds the dwarfs’ cottage, she eats their food, drinks their wine, and tries out all their beds. (See Goldilocks and the Three Bears). In an alternate version, she cleans rather than vandalizes the home.
5. Variations from different countries replace the dwarfs with dragons, giants, and a band of thieves.
6. The Disney film is the first version where the Prince meets and falls in love with Snow White before she becomes comatose. In all others, he is enamored of her still body in a glass casket.
7. In the common telling, one of the Prince’s servants trips while carrying the coffin and the poison apple is dislodged. In another version, the Prince is obsessed with the “dead” woman and takes her coffin everywhere. In anger, one of his servants lifts Snow White out and hits her on the back.
8. Did the Prince worry when Snow White revived that she might have a sharp tongues or sloppy habits? That her flawless, immobile form disguised a disagreeable mate, the way poison can be hidden in bodice, apple, or comb?
9. Disney’s live action reboot has faced numerous calls for boycotts.
10. Racists objected to a Latina in the title role. Pro-Palestinian activists were angry at the casting of Israeli actress Gal Gadot. Some Israel supporters complained about Gadot being given an “evil” role. Conservatives lamented the story update with less focus on love and more on Snow White’s personal ambitions.
11. Some people mistake a desire to succeed at capitalism for feminism.
12. Actor Peter Dinklage protested that the dwarfs were stereotypical. When Disney “reimagined” the characters with regular-sized actors, other performers with dwarfism said Dinklage doesn’t speak for the community and had deprived them of scarce roles.
13. In the Flemish tale, Snow White rejects the Prince’s proposal and returns to the thieves.