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Essay / Princess Culture in Disney Movies - 1219
What princess culture does is put our little girls in a box and give them a “narrow view of femininity” (Dionne). They're all expected to dream of princes, wear frilly pink nightgowns, and wear multiple plastic tiaras, which don't symbolize power to these girls the way a crown does: it's delicate and pretty. Girls are told they have to be pretty and polite. When girls don't fit into this box, they suddenly become "eccentric" or "outspoken." These labels aren't really positive, so girls often stay in the box as long as possible to avoid being different. Our girls are expected to conform to standards of beauty and behavior from a young age. It's something that stays with these girls into adulthood. They will continue to conform to beauty standards and what our male-dominated society wants. If/when women break these norms, they are labeled as something else: freethinkers, weirdos, and even “lesbians.” This raises another problem; Disney princesses are all heterosexual. So from the start, if girls want to be like a princess, they better be heterosexual. In this way, Disney films are heteronormative and lead girls to believe that if they want to find their "one true love", then they must find a handsome man, not perhaps another princess. Evette Dionne writes that Disney princesses gave her distorted expectations of love and romance in "Were You Ruined by Princess Culture?" ". Cinderella is arguably the most famous and influential princess. His character is the subject of many folk tales, fairy tales, films and songs. The best-known film about her is the 1950s Disney version of her story. This is a movie that most kids, especially girls, have watched over and over again. of paper ......6. "Cinderella." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, nd Web. May 1, 2014..Dionne, Evette. “Have you been ruined by princess culture?” RSS Clutch Magazine. Np, nd Web.01 May 2014. culture/>. In the woods. By Stephen Sondheim. April 30, 2014. Performance. Created in 1988. A modern edition of Perrault's original French text can be found in Charles Perrault, Contes, éd. Marc Soriano (Paris: Flammarion, 1989), pp. 274-79. Moskowitz, Clara. “The destructive culture of pretty pink princessesLiveScience.”LiveScience.com. livescience, January 24, 2011. Web. April 16, 2014 “Parenting Princess Culture. » Lifestyle. MSN, nd Web. May 1, 2014.documentid=27351740>.