Are Disney Princesses Good Role Models?
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No
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Disney princesses are teaching kids some good life lessons I do give them that. But there are so many more hidden factors that most people don't see. Every Disney princess has a prince. What if your kid thinks that they cant be happy without a man in their life. Almost all of them live a great life. I don't see any princesses with real world problems. If you think that love is a real world problems then open your eyes. How about we get a princess with an eating disorder or depression or something that teaches kids how to cope with serious things. Instead we are feeding our kids the knowledge that the only thing that could possibly go wrong in their life is not finding love. When they grow up and realize that they have so many problems that have nothing to do with love they will think they're alone on that. If they think they're alone they will think they are different. They won't want to get help in fear of being different. Not getting help could lead to serious problems. Just think about it. Side: No
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Some are, some aren't. Mulan definitely is, as she teaches girls to rebel against institutionalized gender discrimination, and Jasmine is as she encourages girls to determine their own fate instead of allowing antiquated traditions or overbearing parents to determine them for her. Others like Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, clearly not so much. Side: Yes
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i am partially stuck between the two, but it can easily be said that disney princesses do portray the 'wrong' things as to what a woman should be, and what men should be doing in relation to them (saving them...). while i don't entirely find these messages agreeable, i also don't think that children of the age that would watch disney films will pick up on many of the messages that people project back at disney as crimes. some of the messages are even good ones to absorb. However any character, real or imaginary, will send of messages whether comprehensible to those children or not, it is how they learn. to censor every bit of information that comes to them is insane if not impossible. and relatively speaking, imaginary characters that only sometimes promote a 'negative' statement in disney films are far better than real people who will spout things the parent doesn't want them to hear. i think this issue (although not as common in the western world) is far more pressing. disney's portrayal of what it is to be human is generally far better than our own. Side: Yes
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I want to build a snowman. As a man these women have set my standards to always look my best. I only eat 1 grape a day to maintain my hourglass figure. My life is like a fairy tale but minus the really shitty and bland story. I also sing everything and only go for the hot looking guys even though the point of the movie is inner beauty. Side: Yes
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According to me disney princesses are good role models as.. 1. Every disney story and its fairytale characters make us believe in one important ingredient of our life - HOPE. The stories of princesses for example, if we take a look at Cinderella, she, after being treated like in hell , still has hope in her heart that one day she would be free from all the agony and then the days would be hers. Hope is a tiny flicker of light in eternal darkness that shows us the path of success. With the stories,the fairytales and their happy endings, the part of us wich is always a child gets to believe that one day we would get our happy ending too and with that, we move on in our lives which is very necessary. 2. Fairytales always have a prince and struggles for true love. Some might say that because of the perfect people in the stories, we, the people in real world start hoping for the perfect. Guys dream of a girl as beautiful as Cinderella, a perfect lifepartner of them. As well as girls imagine their future someone to be perfect and charming. But, in this world no one is perfect and everybody is different in his or her own way. That difference in us is what makes each of us special and wanted. Someday, someone will come to you and make you feel important cauze...where there is true love (everywhere according to me) your lover will always find you....... Side: Yes
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But most Disney princesses educate girls to have unrealistic ideas and to expect a man to be able to save the day and make every thing okay again. Most of the princesses get saved through their attractiveness, not through their actual ability. Cinderella was taken, not on her work ethic but on her attractiveness. Plus, it's not right for girls to expect their prince charming to fall out of the sky and come to you. Most of the time, you have to look for something you want and take the initiative. Disney educates girls to expect a man to come along and find you, instead of actually going out and creating your future for itself. It's not healthy for a young girl to want to be wanted. She should grow up feeling confident so people desire her for that reason. Side: No
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"In Beauty and the Beast, Belle ends up being trapped by the Beast, who mistreats her and is quite abusive. At the end of the movie, he becomes a gentleman and is magically changed from a beast back into a human again. This story appears to be great because he actually changed for the better, but it sends a terrible signal to young girls and ladies. This movie shows us that abusive men won’t always mistreat us if we stay with them long enough, which is very false! With abusive relationships on the increase, this is one of the worst messages Disney has ever portrayed." Quote from Angelica Stephens from The Celebrity Cafe. Side: No
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Disney princesses don't make good role models because: firstly, it's just a story. Secondly, it's a pretty crappy story at it where everything and everyone will sooner or later bend towards the favour of the princess, so long as she sticks long enough, she'd always get her happy ending, no matter if the reader or the princess herself wants it or not Side: No
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Certainly not ;they are all imaginary,not at all believable,neither tangible,certainly you don't wanna follow the footsteps of an imaginary idol whose lifestyle is completely virtual;Better follow someone whose ideologies are very much like that of yours otherwise follow yourself. Side: No
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