Environmental Influences In Disney Princess Movies

For the past seventy-eight years, Disney continued to create Disney princess movies, a phenomenon which swept the world, with a worldwide gross of up to six hundred million dollars, with young girls adoring each and every movie. Girls from the age of two watch and enjoy these chauvinist movies, spending hundreds of dollars of their parents’ money on outfits so the little girls can resemble their most idealized princess, which include but not limited to Snow White, Cinderella, Tiana and Mulan. However, the stories of the Disney princesses and the princesses themselves do not cater Both detrimental influences on young girls, the official Disney princesses promote light skin over dark and reliance on a man through explicit and implicit means in their allegedly inspirational movies.

A common issues, racism proves prevalent in many Disney princess

Thus, impressionable girls will not expect to go far in life, believing that as long as they catch the attention of a handsome rich man, they will live a life of happiness and luxury. Unfortunately, there seem to be a lack of wealthy men on the prowl for damsels in distress. On the other hand, girls who do not desire to get married, those who wish to work for themselves, will see the failures of independence as a woman, and might lose confidence in themselves. If a princess, with looks, kindness, and intelligence could not succeed, then the poor girl should, by rights, have no chance. Disney weaves these messages into uplifting movies so completely, all the little child receives is the faint impression of anti-feminism. If children constantly receives the same detrimental; theme, the information will become ingrained in an unconscious part of their mind, so when they desire to succeed, they must overcome their internal ideals