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WATCH: Amnesty International Makes Creep-tastic Video Showing ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Being Sexually Assaulted

Emily Zanotti

Amnesty International is jumping on the anti-Disney bandwagon — like celebrities Kristen Bell and Keira Knightley — calling out “fairy tales” for anti-feminist scenarios, where damsels in distress under an evil spell need the help of dashing princes to regain consciousness.

But the nongovernmental organization went way beyond merely criticizing Disney’s heroines. They created their own “fractured fairy tale” in which a prince sexually assaults a sleeping princess, first kissing her and then sliding his hand up her leg, molesting her as she sleeps — a sort-of parody of “Sleeping Beauty” or “Snow White” that comes off less instructive and more, well, creepy.

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