On January 24th for my daily Disney Devotion, I was scrolling through my facebook feed, when I come across this article from the NY Times Cinderella Ate My Daughter Its another book bemoaning the over-hyped commercialization of little girls and the potential negative impacts of the princess culture. An excerpt from the book: "but where was I to turn to understand the new culture of little girls, from toddler to ‘tween,’ to help decipher the potential impact — if any — of the images and ideas they were absorbing about who they should be, what they should buy, what made them girls?”
Ok, so here is my take- lighten up! They are little girls playing dress up and make believe and just because they happen to like the Disney Princesses at age 4 doesn't mean they will grow up to be any less feminist. Personally I think as a culture we are pushing little girls to grow up too fast, and we should be embracing this time of childhood innocence, instead of seeing it as insidious.
I'll agree that Disney is a machine when it comes to merchandising, but seriously, that Cinderella dress is not going to have any lasting negative effects on the little girl who proudly wears it to dine with Cindy at CRT.
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