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But in this mothering there are some really important fine lines here. Because I kept thinking, well why does the mothering Snow White gave them feel so moving and right, yet the way Wendy and Peter Pan interacted felt so wrong in the end? That is one concept I definitely agree with Allen on, that male energy as being Peter Pan is asking for major trouble. So I was thinking that…well after all Peter wanted mothering from Wendy too so what was the difference with Snow White and the dwarves that instead felt healing? And I am thinking now there were actually huge differences…

With Peter it wasn’t just that he had been neglected in terms of mothering, but that he also really didn’t want to grow up and embrace his male energy. There is a reason he looks so effeminate and is off prancing around in never never land and pushes Wendy away whenever she wants to actually get close to him. The dwarves are not like this. They have been neglected, they really are missing that mothering energy and it shows just like with Peter, but with the dwarves when that nurturing female energy shows up in Snow White they may have balked some (me? A bubble bath?!) but deep down they welcomed and loved her, and in the end were very open and cooperative with her promptings of shifting them into a more gentlemanly way of being.

And what’s more they also weren’t focused on using her like Peter used Wendy. I know Wendy had some lovely adventures with him and all that, but when it comes down to it Peter took Wendy to never never land just for his own purposes really—for her stories and for the domestic care the lost boys needed. But with the dwarves, rather the focus was on them giving to her, that male imparting energy rather than Peter’s effeminacy. The dwarves never set out demanding she give to them, she just did it and on her own terms, and they never set out so much to use her for themselves but rather rose to the occasion and helped her when she needed it---and she gave BACK, on her terms. This may not be the case in all the original versions of Snow White, but I’m talking about the Disney movie version, because as I was mentioning before I think Walt went to a VERY deep place with it (its odd for me to prefer a movie version to the original but this one is rare in that it goes even deeper feeling than the original).