Well it's a de facto ban for a certain age range, but yes you are right that I should have taken more care in how I portrayed her words.
But everything I said still applies. There's no reason to treat the kiss as the story promoting unwanted sexual contact because the actual narrative has completely different context surrounding it that contradicts that notion.
And that context is lost on young kids. Heck, the book she's criticizing has kids instructing an adult saying "If you kiss her she wakes up, everyone knows that!", which is already removed from the initial context. Look, we set age limits on media because kids are impressionable. We don't let kids see too explicitly violent stuff because we acknowledge that they are too young to handle that type of content. The article mentioned in the Twitter post above makes this quite clear: "This idea that fairytales are stagnant, that they dont shift and change with the times just doesnt hold water. At other points in history, people have stopped and asked themselves if these stories are still appropriate and adapted them to their audience accordingly." That the narrative of the fairy tale makes a kiss necessary isn't really a good argument for your position. Heck, even Admiral's argument is better. His is just an opinion that "it's not a big deal". We can argue back and forth on that and we'll probably not agree in the end, but it's a sound argument. Yours isn't sound, because it's based on the premise that a six-year-old kid is capable of abstract thinking to a degree that most kids that age simply aren't.
EDIT: And btw, it's not a de facto ban. Schools aren't the only venue where kids have access to books. If parents want to read Sleeping Beauty to their six-year-olds, they could still do it after schools removed this from the curriculum.
You really think saying "My argument is sound because I agree with it, yours is not sound because I disagree with it" means anything? This fairytale has been around forever, so tell me, what negative effects has it had on anyone? This debate didn't arise out of a negative consequence of a child misunderstanding the story, it started solely because of one lady who is trying to manufacture an issue where there isn't one.
Both of our arguments are sound since they are both rooted in logic, but my argument is the only rational one since it's the argument that matches actual reality, rather than some imaginary land where this kids story is gonna harm the little children's minds. ---