Disney Princesses. Prince Charming never kissed Snow White to wake her. Ariel never really loved Eric. The Beast was not angry and violent. Mulan never fell in love with her general. At least not in the original versions of those movies. These stories where changed to make them more interesting, but what they ended up doing was promoting a sexist agenda. Disney teaches girls that they are expected to play a submissive role in society. The fairy tales are symbolic of women’s lives being shaped by male influences. They promote or rather create the transition from being and individual to become a mere sex object. Such as Cinderella, who has three horrid step sisters and lives a miserable life. She then goes through a life changing experience done so by her fairy godmother. She is taken to a ball, in a pretty blue dress, where she meets “Prince Charming.” From there her life is all happiness and bliss. Which conveys that women should change in order to find a man, so they then will be happy. Disney has done an immaculate job of marketing their “Disney Princess” line to young girls. Young girls idolize the princesses and look up to them and consider them a role model. They begin to dress like them and some even say “I want to be a princess when I grow up.” Disney has made $300 million in sales after only three years. It has developed a recent fixation in young women. There have been women that spend thousands of dollars to look like a princess or a Barbie doll. Corporations are selling such movies and effecting the manner in which females live. As they grow older they expect a man to come and change their life. Girls should be taught that they can succeed on their own. Strong, independent women is what we need in our society, no a princess created by a multi-billion corporation.
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