Simon Hoying
Blog 1
Who's a Pretty Princess?
At a young age many of us
already were making aspirations of what job we wanted when we grew
up. Boys always wanted to be firefighters or astronauts, or those
that really had lofty goals, professional sports players. Girls on
the other hand all seemed to want to be one thing, princesses. Not
that they wanted to be actual Austrian royalty or anything, they just
wanted to be treated like a princess. Pampered and loved until they
pop, which may not sound like a bad thing. Unfortunately the
princess culture has a way of taking a hold of girls, and not letting
go even into womanhood. A problem that I believe will never go away,
and that's the main point I want to make in this entry. I believe
this for two reasons. One, because I frankly don't think that we
want the princess culture to end, and second because of the medias
influence on us. Take for example all the Disney princesses. This
idea is feed to a kid at young age, and only continues to grow as
they age. In hard times we find solace in the things from our
childhood. So we will never get rid of that feel. You can also say
that the idea infantilization could come into to play. Woman at
times love to go back to their childhood, hence the princesses
culture is deeply rooted since even adults won't change. Then you
have to attribute the media to the staying power of the princess
culture. Not just Disney, but one of my favorite shows Parks and Rec
had an example of the princess culture. It was the Halloween episode
and the main characters daughters both dresses as princesses, and so
did her! I thought it summed up the idea of the princess culture
perfectly. It's something embedded in our culture and it will never
go away.
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