No happy (politically correct) endings

Fairy tales: can there be anything more innocent or pure?

 

 

These stories always begin with:
 
Once upon a time 

and end with:
 
and they lived happily ever after

Language note: Does "ever after" mean the same as "forever"? When would I use one and not the other?

Recently, Hollywood has adapted a lot of these fairy tales, some with completely different endings, some taking a more sarcastic or adultlike view. Here are a few:

  

These are just a few. We can't forget The Pied Piper or the Three Little Pigs.

Of course, there are local children stories that are just as or even more interesting. This one is a Brazilian classic:
 




Now with the surge of the so-called politically correct movement, these stories are being retold from a feminist or less sexist, or even less racist view. There are even versions, like the movie Hoodwinked, that tries to tell the story from the view of the outcast or the outsider. 
So what is political correctness?

The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against. 

Oxford Dictionaries Online

So instead of saying someone is blind, it would be more polite to say they are visually impaired. 

Here is a short list of some politically correct language. The more polite terms are in blue:

 

This issue draws our attention to a simple fact about language: words have the meaning we associate to them. A word can be offensive to some and inoffensive to others, racist to some and casual to others.

Take the example of the word nigga in American English. A look at the definition of the word shows it to be pejorative, but "only a Black man can call another black man by that name". 

This scene from the movie Rush Hour humorously show that:

 
  
Now over to you:

Should children stories be rewritten in a more politically correct way?

Will political correctness cause more problems than solutions?

Is being politically correct a big issue in your country?