Getting off-topic (or, back on?):
This thread somehow struck me to realize there's another way to look at Little Red Riding Hood.
Usually the fable/tale is meant to warn kids about stranger danger et al.
But, the wolf didn't come to her as a stranger. He came to her as her grandmother.
And the people most likely to molest/rape/murder a child is, in order of most to least likely: the parents (/parent-adjacent), grandparents, uncles/aunts, siblings/cousins, neighbors/family friends, people with frequent or easy levels of access/trust (coaches, therapists, afterschool program people, etc), ..., strangers.*
A different take-away is that family members can be wolves in sheeps' clothing. To be wary of grandma, or other family members, because she might not be what she appears.
Somehow this particular perspective never occurred to me before. It took a MxMxW comic to suddenly bring it to mind. Apparently.
*https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2799356
*https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/gsh/Booklet_6new.pdf
*https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40621-024-00518-0
*https://cssi.research.uiowa.edu/news/2024/10/ui-study-examines-perpetrators-child-homicides-us-use-guns
*https://vitalrecord.tamu.edu/study-finds-family-members-are-most-common-perpetrators-of-infant-and-child-homicides-in-the-us/
*https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2174580/
