I saw this on Mike Laughead's blog and it made me laugh. He pointed out that Disney distributes Studio Gibli films but has failed to include Princess Mononoke in their Princess line up. Which I don't get. She's a princess!! and a lot more of one than Belle- Thankfully, Mike photoshopped her into place.
And I'm not such a big fan but Pocahontas is a princess. Why is she left out? Her pesky anti-materialism schtick cause too much trouble?
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I know based on our trips to the Disney Store with Bree that Pocahontas is sometimes included as a princess. Aubrey even has a pocahonta figurine. Mulan is also treated as kind of a second-class princess even though she became a princess. Aubrey has a Mulan figurine and a Mulan Barbie so they do get some love. They are both also on some of the Princess DVD's. I feel like I know more about princesses as a 27 year old man than I ever did as a kid.
HAHAHA!
The whole Disney Princess phenomenon makes me glad not to have any daughters yet. Ugh.
It disgusts me to realize that the princesses you show are some of the current role models for girls. (Except Mononoke, of course.)It is very sad that these types of images are still so prevalent.
That picture is funny. Your friend did a good job. I don't think Pocahontas is a princess. But maybe that's just me.
I looked it up and apparently some scholars agree with you Kristen.
Pocahontas, known formally as Matoaka, rechristened Rebecca, was the daughter of Wahunsunacawh the "emporor Powhatan" of Tenakomakah - a kingdom composed of 28 "tribes" that covered most of coastal VA and the land the English were squatting on to build Jamestown- BUT due to the matrilineal descent of power in the society it is unlikely that Pocahontas held the social status of her father but of her mother of which nothing is know. Consequently it was unlikely she would have inherit dominion of the lands - if that's how you define being a princess.
She does however seem to fit the Western tradition of a princess - daughter of a male monarch. Contemporary London society accepted her as such. When she traveled to England she was introduced to King James as a royal Princess of the Americas.
As the modern princess phenomenon means a female child especially favored, she fits perfectly as Smith describes her his journal as "the Kings dearest daughter" But Smith was known as a bit of liar so you can't really trust anything he says.
Preparing for when we have daughters, I've asked several parents about how to keep a daughter from falling for the princess craze. Most people have said it's inevitable. Anyone have any more optimistic suggestions?
If you happen to like the princess craze you might not like this question, but to echo a modern-day princess (Miss California), I mean "no offense." BR
Ugh...I loathe Disney princesses. The ones they use are silly girls (like Ariel...come on, what is one useful thing we can learn from the girl who gives up her voice to try and woo a guy she is lusting over. Please.) and the ones like Mulan who actually did something important are ignored. Just because she wears modest clothes. One time Jamieson's mom gave Noelle a hot pink Easter basket with a pic of the Disney gals on it. When we got it home I ripped that picture right off. Ha. I think my mom knows better. I don't mind princesses so much as I mind the Disney ones. But like Jamieson says, if you are going to be anything, be the queen, not a princess. Okay, that rant is done.
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