The stuff sold to little girls is lousy not because it involves princesses, but because the princess industry depends on bending little girls’ imaginations into a very narrow and purely decorative channel. The problem isn’t that little girls want to be princesses, that their fantasies latch onto our set of cultural set of stories with women at the center. The problem is that the only princess available to little girls is Marie Antoinette—instead of, say, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Catherine de Medici, Boudica, Grace O’Malley, Rani Lakshmi-Bai, Elizabeth of Hungary, Jadwiga of Poland, or Elizabeth of Portugal. If they’re given the space and freedom, little girls and boys will come up with much better games, much better roles, much better stories, than anything currently hawked by either Disney or Sesame Street........ And as much as I love Sesame Street, that cut seemed pretty lame...thoughts?
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:57:56 +0000
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