Abstract
The story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is a familiar one. Recount the details of that story now as you heard it as a child. When we were growing up the “bad guys” in this story were the three bears. Goldilocks was the good person—at least the innocent one. No one ever challenged this interpretation. We heard it and we accepted it as fact. The bears were bad and Goldilocks was a poor innocent victim. But we are no longer children. The fact is the bears were minding their own business. One might assume that they were good neighbors and friends of many in the woods. It is possible that if “Goldie” had knocked on the door, asked for food, she would have been well received. But the bears weren’t at home and she went right into the house uninvited. She ate their food, broke their furniture, and slept in their beds. And the bears were perturbed. The bears understandably couldn’t see how this was mutually beneficial. They were angry and poor little innocent Goldilocks ran for her life.