What Disney Princesses Taught Me

The Princess Culture has made an enormous impact on young girls for generations.  The Jenna Marbles video on YouTube, “What Disney Movies Taught Me” is not only hilarious, but is very true (and is full of foul language, yikes).  Girls strive every day to be more and more like princesses, but are they really great influences or realistic at all?  We will start for their clothing, for example.  How appropriate is it that Ariel and Jasmine walk, or swim, around in nothing but bras on top? I feel that it is completely inappropriate for young girls to want to dress like these women. The princesses all have tiny waists, big busts, and a perfect figure.  I feel that this makes young girls feel uncomfortable in their bodies since they haven’t yet matured.  Not to mention the unrealistic hair expectations they give us, I have yet to make my hair as beautiful as The Little Mermaid’s!  Ariel is also a poor example of obeying your parents.  She makes the decision to go against her fathers’ will and fall in love with a man whom she has never even met and still lives happily ever after.  The princesses teach young girls that they should all have someone as their personal servant or slave. For example, Cinderella has all the animals from the woods like birds and mice, Ariel has Sebastian and Flounder, and Snow White has the Dwarves.  In Disney movies, anyone who is evil is generally an unattractive person, are we really teaching girls this early on to not like “ugly” people?  The princesses all have stories that they end up falling in love and getting married, the end.  The sole purpose of their existence is to get married? Thank you, Disney, for the life lessons.

Below is the link to the Jenna Marbles video I referenced:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rT28Z0xM88