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Are Disney Princesses Anti-Feminist?
All of the above. Disney princesses are always so sad until their prince comes along! They cant support themselves or do anything to better their lives without some handsome prince.Just like twilight. Pisses me off.
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hahaha, awesome question... somebody has too much time for thinking :\and i guess i agree... :D haha...
:PPDOUBLE TOUNGE STICKING OUT THINGY!! HAHA!
aaaand somebody has too many tongues... :/
the original ones (cinderella, ariel, aurora) are antifeminist, but recently disney seems to have gotten its act together.
well, you have people like mulan, too.
Ariel...well, good point...but she's still my favorite, I was obsessed with her when I was little.
Let me tell you something Chandani:The Disney Princesses you are describing are based off of other fairy tales, where the princesses did the exact same thing. Plus they were made during a time that women weren't thought of very highly.
But I think they are racist too. The majority of their princesses are white, and the two that aren't are always the ones who are the strongest. (Following me?)
I don't know what to think though.
Riley wrote: "Let me tell you something Chandani:
The Disney Princesses you are describing are based off of other fairy tales, where the princesses did the exact same thing. Plus they were made during a time tha..."
i agree with you, riley. i totally get what you're saying about the racism.
mariah:
i agree, i think they have been getting their act together a little, although it could be much much better.
The Disney Princesses you are describing are based off of other fairy tales, where the princesses did the exact same thing. Plus they were made during a time tha..."
i agree with you, riley. i totally get what you're saying about the racism.
mariah:
i agree, i think they have been getting their act together a little, although it could be much much better.
Chandani wrote: "All of the above. Disney princesses are always so sad until their prince comes along! They cant support themselves or do anything to better their lives without some handsome prince.Just like twi..."
You said it all!
the princesses are white because many fairy tales are european.
I see no harm in little girls growing up watching disney princess movies. as they get older, they'll see how shallow they are, so it doesn't matter. although i must say, i was never really into any of those movies -- except for Mulan, which is very feminist, of course. :) heehee. i always found the rest of them kinda dull. of course, i was a strange child and spent most of the time watching "the nightmare before christmas" over and over again. O.o uh yeah. moving on. lol
haha, i did that too... cuz my brother was always watching it.... :D ....but yeah, i really have nothing to say here that's 'on topic', so um...
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oh, i did watch mulan, that one was kinda cool, and not particularly feminist.... agh, the second one i couldn't finish though, i was laughing too hard when whatsisname fell off the cliff and my sister made me leave... but yeah, first one was all "girls can beat stuff up too", so yeahhhz...
GOD i hated the hercules movie. it was so mythologically incorrect!!! hades is NOT evil and is NOT the reason hercules died, i mean when he did die in the real myth, it was HERA and they called him HERCULES when the greek name is actually HERAKLES gods i hated it....
and isn't hades not a person, but a place? like, the greek version of hell, basically?
NO OMGS he is the lord of the underworld, which shares his name, which includes the fields of punishment, (hell) the fields of asphodel (boring heaven) and some sort of awesome mountain where heroes who dies in battle go(cool heaven). he is NOT in ANY WAY evil although he is often portrayed that way because he is the lord of the dead, but he can be devious. but he had, and never will, have any interest in herakles!!and i KNOW that in the movie they were incorrect because hercules is ROMAN and the roman name for hades is PLUTO soooooooooo that movie was just WRONG and INCORRECT and just BLA i hate new disney. old is fine, but new, with all the jonas brothers hannah montana crap is AWFUL.
ah, i see... wow, you know your stuffs...hahaha, but they couldn't call him pluto, could they? i mean, being a disney movie, he would've been compared to a certain satanic mouse's pet dog, soooo.... hahahaha... oh, and the satanic thing was a joke, btw...
wait what?yeah i know greek myths, i have been studying it on my own for about 6 months.
mickey mouse's dog = pluto.kewl... :D
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if its about mythology, it should DAMN be correct. its just like making a book into a movie, only worse because greek mythology used to be a religion!!!!
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Yes, I can understand that, because the Order of the Phoenix was so incomplete. I almost hated that movie. Which is sad, because I love the books.
(( o My teacher got a poster of the 6th movie with all of the charter's (the actors) signed it + J.K. signed it too it was so cool, sorry))
i love greek mythology!! and the percy jackson books!! yessss!!! XD
Mythology, in any form, is interesting just because of how much their gods compare to ours, and how humanized their gods were.
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Emma the Dork wrote: "NO OMGS he is the lord of the underworld, which shares his name, which includes the fields of punishment, (hell) the fields of asphodel (boring heaven) and some sort of awesome mountain where hero..."he kidnapped persephone. that's kinda bad.
i think all the gods were jerks except for athena, she was awesome. i know alot about greek myths, but not the movie hercules. i agree, it should be correct.
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That was bad, but he was lonely. He could have though of something else though.
yeah, it was bad, but a lot of other greek gods have done some immoral stuff too. GODS i hate hera she has some serious problems its funny how zeus raped a whle bunch of women like leeda. its funny! and also kind of frightening.
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I love Athene. I spell her name both ways.
Do you think Disney Princesses are Anti-Feminist, teaching little girls to be anti-feminist, or all of the above?