Ok so what can I say about the reading by Peggy Orenstein. I
guess I can say that her reading is about the influences on children from the
image of princesses. as a boy growing up, something like this seems normal to
me. All of the girls would be pink crazy and trying to look like the princess
from the new Disney movie that came out at the time whether it was Cinderella or
another princess. This is what Orenstein talks about, it’s the image or
products that is spreading nationwide of pink toys, or magical sparkly make-up
or dresses. Orenstein thinks this is constricting the girls self-image.
I don’t think she is wrong with the idea of a girls
self-image being constricted. Not everything news to be pink and magical, which
kind of relates to the Brave; she doesn't want to be girly she wants to be free
and maybe a little ruff. I also think that Cinderella ate my daughter is
directed to parents as well because yess as a young age girls do want to be
magical and girly but it is because of their parents as well for forcing this
into watching all the female Disney movies of what I princess do and what they look like, they also are the ones that
buy all of the pink clothes, toys, and make-up for them to use so at a child
they also think what they are doing is normal since they see it on tv and their parents help enforce
it. And other than the girly objects they created Ken a male doll. What message
does this show a child, that a pretty princess needs a handsome prince, maybe
this is why some people are so picky now. Everything is designed to be pretty
and perfect. Then again this relates to the mother in the Brave, she is raising
her daughter to be perfect and pretty always enforcing that a princess should
do this and a princess should do that.
What is wrong with the color blue on a girl, as they get
older and become more individualized they wear blue and no one says nothing. But
as a child or even a young teen what does it mean to not wear pink, why does it
always seem to be a bad thing when a girl doesn't want to be a girly girl at
that age. Maybe they are a little more ruff outside, scrapping their knees,
grass stains, and playing with boy toys. They are assumed to being a Tom Boy
like the daughter in the brave. She doesn't do anything really that the mother
likes and does more of the things that the father like but then in the end she
turns out to be a perfect little girl without all the pink. I think all girls
should have more of a choice for themselves without being dictated into what
their parents want.
Questions;
Why do we talk about the Cinderella effects on children when
parents are the ones forcing it on the child?
I cant relate to being forced to wear pink cause im a boy,
but now at this present time a 21 yr old I have a few pink shirts in my closet.
Does this mean I wasn’t raised the right way to stay with just the boy dominate
colors such as blue?
