Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Advice for Young Girls from a Cartoon Princess: Beauty and the Beast

A few months ago, Renee posted about Disney princesses and how not one female character in the arsenal of Disney princess movies can be classified as a heroine or as being empowering for young girls. In her original post, that spawned quite the controversy in the comments section from people who see no problem with Disney's celebration of sexism, she included a super awesome video, Advice for Young Girls from a Cartoon Princess: The Little Mermaid.

Much to my thorough enjoyment, it looks like they have decided to make Advice for Young Girls from a Cartoon Princess an ongoing series and have recently come out with a video that sums up all of the disturbing messages and imagery seen in Beauty and the Beast.



Transcript:

If you find a man who's big and hairy and beastly and it seems like he wants to hurt you, but he's got a lot of money and a really big house, stick it out, you can change him. Desire is when a man wants you so much that he's willing to yell at you and beat down your door and tell you if you don't eat with him, you don't eat at all. It also kinda means he wants you to be skinny. There was once a really hot, successful man who was very goal-oriented and extremely popular who wanted to marry me, but I didn't feel like it was enough of a challenge. Never settle for something that doesn't feel like it's a challenge. I don't like the term "beastiality;" it sounds...blegh. I like the term "interspeciality" because it sounds like "special." Find a man who wants to imprison you with his love. The longer that you're trapped with the same person, it will start to feel like home--Stockholm. You don't need to have fancy people friends. Things around your house can be your friends. Don't just sit on furniture--talk to it. Candlesticks are really good at love advice because they're French. The key to love is to tolerate everything. Oh god...everything. The lesson here is beauty is in the eye of the beholder--as long as the woman is good looking.

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