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doroshii

What's Wrong With Cinderella?

Dec 27, 2006 01:13

"What’s Wrong With Cinderella?" from a feminist mother's point of view. This is actually something I had been thinking about lately with shopping for Christmas presents for my nieces (ages 7 and 4) and the author raises some overlooked points. I know a lot of you probably played dress-up and acted out fairy tales as I did when I was a wee lass, but ( Read more... )

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xochitl December 27 2006, 14:05:16 UTC

I do agree with a few things in that article, mainly that Club Libby Lu is CREEPY. If I ever had a daughter, I would steer her far, far away from that store. o.O

nouveauhippie December 27 2006, 16:39:05 UTC

I can only say I watch in agony as my neices have bouts of this same thing. Thankfully my sister is very very tomboy and the eldest seems to be growing out of it some at 7. Mine, at 9, is just now leaning that direction but its more in a Mary-Kate/Ashley way than a pink and fluffy way. I guess we managed to dodge that bullet by *heavily* catering to her budding interest in arts and crafts. Pink is fine (though I hated it as a kid) but there is always the cliche "too much of a good thing".

Things become cliche for a reason.

clarus December 27 2006, 18:59:08 UTC

Wow, thanks for the link to the article! Have bookmarked and am reading.

I, too, find myself more and more enamored with pink as time goes on. Perhaps, by loving the color, you and I are engaged in some nifty subversion? :D

ebeelove December 27 2006, 22:10:18 UTC

Wow, that was a really interesting article. Thank you for sharing. I have a sister who is 16 years younger than I am, and is in a "princess phase"... Sometimes it seems completely innocent and harmless, other times... It worries me a little. -_-;

I loved the disney movies as a kid and I turned out all right, but I have to wonder about the "I just met you 5 seconds ago and now we're deeply in love and lets get married" theme that is in so many of those movies...