Bluebeard Critics

Reading the introductory article to Bluebeard left me with a thought: Why is it always the woman who is the victim? I'm not trying to be sexist or anything like that, I just think that pretty much every story we've read, it just feels like these commentators set out to make every fairy tale some story about how men want to control women, and how fundamentally sexist every fairy tale is. Granted, there are not nice things that these stories say about women, but the same can be applied to men.

Bluebeard is a good example. Am I, as a man, supposed to be highly controlling and sadistic? Am I supposed to feel the joy of killing another person, just because I told them not to go into a room? What does this say about men? We are all just primal, insensitive pigs, out to rule the world? But all the article seems to talk about is how the woman is the victim, because she let curiosity get the better of her. It could happen to anyone. I think it prejudices men alot more.

All I know, is that if these readers go into a story with a notion in their mind, if they are reading it to discover something they want to discover, they'll find it. Someone can bend the facts to their own liking, and then say it's the truth. I just think that with stories like Bluebeard, it's more obvious about the authors opinions about the man is, rather than the female.