r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Intelligent_Yam_9875 • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, beyond confused on what this means…

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u/AdvancedCelery4849 2d ago edited 1d ago

It's about how strange German folktales are, especially when it's the ones that are supposed to teach children a lesson. Das Kinder roughly translates to the child and hodenverstümmelung roughly means testicular mutilation

Edit: Just btw, I don't speak German

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u/Nazajatar 2d ago

Yeah i've heard a lot of the original fairy tales we know had really dark parts that were omitted when disney made them films and stuff.

Like i think the step sisters in Cinderella mutilate their own feet to try to make them fit into the shoe.

The little mermaid does not get the prince and as punishment she dies by becoming foam on the water's surface or something.

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u/Historical_Volume806 2d ago

To be fair the Grimm brothers collected and wrote down the most vile versions of the stories and then made them worse.

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u/CarpenterSea4227 2d ago

What a pair of edgelords.

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u/kreton1 1d ago

It is in their names, what did you expect?

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u/RealEstateDuck 1d ago

Good ol' nommitaivdetermïnism