publishing a book that features gender-neutral characters instead.

I eagerly await the version of Rapunzel where nonbinary gender-neutral young monarch gets xer eyes ripped out by thorns, all for the acquaintanceship of a nonbinary gender-neutral tower dweller. Truly a tale for the ages.

James Halliwell-Phillips’ “The Three Little Pigs,”

Wolf, pigs, straw, stick, bricks? What the fuck does any of that have to do with males and females? Can girls not build houses? What, you can't just draw so you couldn't make a version where they're all in dresses, you had to change a few pronouns in Word to justify slapping your name on it?

as well as Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Hare,” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse” are the classic fairytales that Natalie Portman deemed necessary to give a breath of fresh 21st century air.

There's nothing in the versions of any of these that I heard that even implies masculinity or femininity. Hell, that's probably why Aesop used animals in his fables (not fairy tales, dammit) in the first place - his fables weren't meant to ever be applied to specific people so animals were used for characters to make it easier to abstract out to archetypes.

“For boys to see women in positions of power

They're called mothers. Because let me tell you, when I was a kid my image of absolute power was a middle-aged woman who wore a lot of light blue and saw through every trick and every lie I tried.

is almost more important than for girls, because I think that is the way we raise a generation that will just look at all genders as human,” Portman said.

Implying that current men do not see women as human.

She added, “And that’s how we get to equality.”

We get to equality of the sexes by forcing everything, even cartoon animals, to have an explicit and notable sex they can't stop talking about. Fucking genius.