"Kinder und Hausmärchen" was the original name for Grimm's Fairy-tales (David and David 1964, 181). Today, the collection of stories are used all over mainstream media and are a common part of childhood (Zipes 2004). As iconic as the stories are they stories and the language throughout the stories demonstrate gender biases perceived by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, and reinforces and exemplifies gender roles while also objectifying women through societal beauty standards.

The Grimm Fairy-tale's consists of very flat one dimension heroines. The women characters are stereotyped and held to a higher level of expectations. The characteristics that make up a heroine in the collection of stories consist of poise, pure, white, and beautiful. These attributes that women are held to throughout the stories are extreme, and often the women become ostracized when going against the ideal role. In addition, women are portrayed as even are often elderly and ugly representing that a women's worth is held in her youth. Throughout the Grimm's Fairy-tales "beautiful" is used the most to describe women and used 39% of the time (Robinson 2010, 93). In addition, is a women is not directly said to be "beautiful" the adjectives that are used are then to describe her beauty. On the other hand, physical characteristics in male character is less important; submissive and passive adjectives are frequently used positively to describe female characters, however, this is never found in male character. 

Throughout the stories many of the adjectives used take on a different meaning when describing men or women. Many of the adjective used that have a positive meaning for women have a negative connotation for men. In addition, different adjectives will have a higher level of severity for women than for men. Most physical adjectives are used exclusively for female characters. Then, adjectives representing piety are considered explanatory characteristics for women, but are considered weak for men (Robinson 2010, 106). 

Throughout the original text the pronouns used for female characters are inconsistent, and even frequently change with in a single story. The pronouns used will switch between the neutral "es" and the feminine "sie" (Chi 2018). The changes in the pronoun will indicate when a female character is no longer considered "good" or "feminine". For instance, girls entering womanhood and expressing sexuality, which is often symbolized through the color red, often shift pronouns, taking on the equivalent of "it", which implies to reader the gender biased, and women's' worth is determined by their piety and appearance. 

Additionally, the fairy-tales "Cinderella" (Aschenputtel), "Little Red Riding Hood" (Rotkäppchen), and even "Rapunzel" (rampion) all have something in common, yet it is not what is expected (Robinson 2010, 85). All the stories, are iconic today, however, another similarity is the naming schemes. The names of the female characters are very literal and descriptive. Although this may seem like a minor detail, the names ultimately are objectifying because they are fixated on appearance and physical features rather than individuality. While boys are more consistently have conventional names more and use less physical description and more by their "occupation" than female characters.

Overall, the gender bias text throughout the original text takes away from the original folklore. Jacob and Wilhelm's intentions were to seek out German urban legends and colloquial stories to maintain German heritage during a time it was deteriorating, however, in result, the editors -Jacob and Wilhelm- manufactured their own agenda and implemented their own values. This is apparent through the biased gendered language and the stereotypes used to portray female characters. Furthermore,  female characters self worth are often represented through their physical traits, and once deemed ugly are ostracized from society and are dehumanized and take on the "it" pronoun. Ulimtaly, this language deteriorates from the literature and reinforces gendered biases and demonstrates the manipulation of the original text.