Frilly In Pink

Frilly in Pink

Girls in pink tutus, tiaras, and ball gowns…fancy shoes, hair in perfect curls, and money in her pocket.  To America, this defines a princess.  A princess can shop any place she wants own the fanciest of things, spend top dollar and demand to be treated like a princess any place she goes. 

We face this problem in society today.  The media overly portrays to us that it is ok to be a self-centered arrogant princess bitch.  Often times the “princess” has been treated and portrayed as a princess from birth.  Only wearing pink and frills, being told that she is the princess, and getting anything, she wants and doesn’t need.  I have often noticed this occurs in the youngest child that especially if it is a girl, also if the girl is an only child.  More often, these “types” of girls are “spoiled”, treated like a princess, and get away with just about everything.  This has often ruined many families.  My aunt in particular is one that can be called “princess”.  She was the youngest of 4 children—3 girls and a boy—and of course very spoiled.  She usually got away with everything in life, and my grandparents admitted it.  Even into her adult years, she still received more of an acceptance from my grandparents than the others did.  She is very princess like in the sense that she refused to live in a shabby home, or clothing that was “cheap”, she had to have the most perfect items available.  The problem with growing up being treated like a princess is that when reality hits, those types of women/girls don’t know how to handle it!  My aunt went through some troubles in her marriage because things weren’t perfect and she couldn’t have children, she left her husband that treated her like a queen over the fact that the option of kids was not possible (on her end of things).  Reality set in when she met a man that treated her like a princess, but not in a sense that she was used to….it began to fade the longer they spent together.  Eventually she realized they could not afford the most expensive items on the market and settled for a trailer home.  She lost her job and worked at a bar to make up income, her life became depressing.  She was a victim of the princess culture.  She became severely depressed, ended up finding out she had MS and when my grandfather remarried she lost her “princess status” to the step-kids. 

I think that because the media overly portrays that it is ok to be a princess and that any girl can be a princess, which you will forever be a princess and nothing bad can happen to you!  The problem is that they are more susceptible to becoming severely depressed or other clinical issues that can protrude into daily activities.  Why?....because these people don’t know how to handle NOT being spoiled, and not having the best of the best and everything you want at the drop of a dime!