Stereotypes In The Little Mermaid, By Bartyzel

Bartyzel starts off strong as she presents an argument that helps supports her viewpoint about how are young girls are being aliened by Disney in an article written by a New York Times newspaper writer, Peggy Orenstein who talks about how the Disney princesses are not about magic and happily ever afters are“a constant narrowing of what it means to be to be feminine.” (Bartyzel,468) But in addition to Orenstein’s input into the issue, Bartyzel includes psychotherapist Mary Finucane, whose three year old daughter loves the princess culture so much that she worries about the impact the Disney princess brand will take effect on her daughter had began refusing to do or wear things that princesses didn't act or wear,"... “and had stopped running

and jumping because princesses didn't do those things.”(Bartyzel,468)
Bartyzel has a stronger argument here because she describes that though the help of Finucane, that young girls are smitten at a young age, and by having these princesses do or not do a certain thing means that their young fans wouldn’t so it wouldn’t be “lady like” to not act like if she didn’t want to wear a nice ball dress or to let her hair down run around, having fun.
But Crystal Liechty in her article “In defense of the princess culture.” says there is nothing wrong to want to be “like” Cinderella or any other of the princesses,since Cinderella “has a good work ethic and a good attitude despite being treated awful by others.” (Liechty,471) Sure,there's nothing wrong with having a good work ethic and a good attitude but I don’t see any of the Disney princesses getting a job soon,since they have rich husbands and rule a kingdom together.
Liechty asks her readers a question about this “Why is it offensive that a woman might need a man to be happy?” and that “There is nothing wrong about falling in love with a supportive and wealthy male figure.” (Liechty, 472) There’s nothing wrong to want a man or to fall in love with rich man but in Disney’s standards, they put that standard too high for little girls saying that the finding a gallant man to marry means in giving something up in order to achieve the “happily ever after”. According to Bartyzel,
“These girls have to struggle in a narrow world of pretty dresses and the male dependency.” Just because a girl will give up everything to be with a man, doesn’t mean the man will want that girl so means that Disney is giving these girls false sense of hope that men will just take the girl as they are.

Sure, Ariel in The Little Mermaid, she gave up her voice and traded in her fins for a pair legs to be with the prince but that wouldn’t work in real life.

While on the topic on how realistic Disney is to young girls, Bartyzel gives more examples and talks about those examples about why the princess model is an unrealistic goal for young girls. And that “gives girls a narrow view of femininity.” (Bartyzel, ) She notes how Merida from the movie Brave,was given a “Disney makeover” to be more glamorous and more appealing to the consumer,mainly little girls,but it was thrown out when people started to complain. But contrary to Bartyzel’s opinion, Liechty thinks that princess dresses “are pretty classy”. (Liechty,

So if you were to google all of the Disney princesses, you would see eleven princesses and what do see as their appearance? Almost every princess has her hair long, with a dress, some makeup, and jewelry, leading young girls to believe this is the only way to dress like a girl. Because if you don’t dress like this, then you are no

lady.