"Fair" is more "beautiful" than "hot"

'Fair' used to mean 'pale'. Snow White is called Snow White because of how pale she is.

Of course under White supremacy, there's a reason being fair/pale came to mean 'pretty-faced'. But it's why a child can be 'fair'.

I wouldn't confuse "fair" with "hot." Words like "pretty" don't have to imply sexual attraction. I can see a five year old girl wearing an adorable dress and complement her, calling her pretty. That doesn't mean I'm a pedophile. I call my cats beautiful, but that doesn't mean I'm into bestiality. The sunset can be beautiful or pretty, but I don't want to fuck the Sun.

I would see this as simply asking the mirror who the prettiest girl or woman in the kingdom is. Remember, the Queen isn't trying to get a date. She's trying to seek out and eliminate potential future romantic rivals. She's an aging woman jealous at the beauty of youth.

She's essentially asking, "who in the kingdom has the greatest natural beauty?" If they're a child, that beauty would be reflected as the simple innocent cuteness of an adorable young child. If they're an adult, that beauty would be reflected as actual sexual attractiveness. She's trying to take Snow White out while she's still a child, before she grows up and her natural beauty shifts from childhood prettiness to the sexual attractiveness of an adult.

So mirror picked up a side job as a palantir?

Similar to Fairest?

Þat's good! It'd also be interesting to make Snow White þe villain colluding wiþ þe mirror and dwarves, and have þe Queen be þe protagonist.

I mean, my cat is beautiful but that doesn't mean he's hot.

Yes, it got translated differently because the original sentence ("Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?") doesn't really rhyme when translated to english.

In the original (german) version she was asking who was the most beautiful in the kingdom(? not sure if that's the correct way to translate that).