Princess

Today, while enjoying my very unhealthy lunch, I found myself starring rather intently at my amazing Disney purse (that my amazing fiancé purchased for me). It was at this point that I truly realized the depth of our culture and marginalization of women.

My purse is in fact a Disney Princess purse it showcases four of the most well known Disney princesses—Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Snow White, and Bell (from Beauty and The Beast). Obviously, all four of them have some similarities, but there is one striking difference in the group.

At the end of all of the Disney Princess movies, the star female becomes a princess at the end of the movie—except for three. Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Ariel (The Little Mermaid) and Jasmine (Aladdin) are all born princesses. At the end of the movie when they reveal in the fact of being a princess, they were already princesses from the beginning, thanks to their family lineage.

This fact lead me to think about the other Princess. In the remaining Princess movies, every single female “becomes” a Princess thanks to a man. They are always rescued by some Prince and only become Princesses by marrying into the royalty. The females in these movies are not “good enough” to be royalty on their own; they need a man to help them. In fact, even Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin’s main females require the help of a man for them to truly accept and live up to their “Princess” titles.

Ridiculous.