The
Snow White
Syndrome:

A variety of symptoms that together indicate and characterize a frequently fatal dis-ease - the international, cross-cultural restriction and control of women.

For the prince it was love at first sight. She lay in her coffin, pleasing to gaze upon and warm to touch but silent, supine and pliant. As close to death as a body could be without rotting.

The little mermaid sold her voice for a chance to please the prince and his God. Every step she took on her new legs shot shafts of pain through her body; but she never complained.

Cinderella's sisters mutilated their feet by slicing bits off with a knife; a heel here and a toe there. A futile attempt to fit themselves into the glass slipper.