So I'm getting really sick of those YouTube videos about "Disney conspiracies" "Disney is perverted and racist" "Princesses have such a bad influence on young girls!" etc. So, I'm deciding to show my support.

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Issue #1: "When You Wish Upon a Star"

Before I get too far, I just want to ask something. Didn't that song come from Pinocchio? If anything, THAT teaches kids that just wishing will make everything better. And that movie was more for boys than girls, so shouldn't we be concerned about our sons, too? That is, if we have anything to be concerned about at all. Some people, including Doug Walker (better known as the Nostalgia Critic) actually think that the wish is MOTIVATION, and that you have to work for it.

Issue #2: Princesses like Cinderella just teach girls to wait around and wish and their prince will come

I think you missed most of the movie. The part with the Fairy Godmother is a very small part. In most of the movie, she's working for her evil step mother and not complaining about it. Don't you think that her hard work means she deserved that wish, that she deserved that bit of magic? If anything, that teaches kids to WORK towards their goals, be good and they'll be rewarded. And Cinderella was kind, which is why her friends helped her get what she wanted. That seems like a good moral.

Issue #3: Princess Ariel is just a whiny teenager

She's a teenager. That makes her more realistic. Plus, she's curious. She's adventurous. She saves a man's life for Pete's sake, how was THAT swept under the rug? True, she did give up her life as a Princess of the Sea for a man she barely knew, but didn't you do something stupid for someone you barely knew to make you love them? She fights, she does all she can to help save her father and Eric. Plus, didn't someone else quite popular do something similar? Give up her life for someone she barely knew? I don't see any of you bashing Juliet Capulet, who was roughly the same age and did the same thing! In fact, people still praise her as being one of the best characters ever. And Ariel is shunned why? True, most people don't let their kids see Romeo and Juliet, but then again, not every kid will see The Little Mermaid, so why would parents still be more concerned about Ariel?

Issue #4: Some just let other people take care of them, like Snow White

And Snow White took care of the dwarves. She was practically their mother, which is why they loved her so much and why her death made it so much harder for them. Snow White does show a bit of a gender role stereotype there, but that's because that's the way it was back in the day. Now Disney can't get away with that seeing as A) females have evolved to be better than that thanks to women's rights and things of that nature and B) THEY ABANDONNED IT YEARS AGO. Seriously, how many princesses in the past few years have had to have someone rescue them because they were totally defenseless? Look at Marida, Tiana, and Rapunzel. Do they look weak and defenseless to you? No, they look like honest-to-God people. Snow White is now a bit of an older issue, but I doubt she'll be that bad to let your kids watch.

Issue #5: They get with men they barely know

Jasmine is probably one of the more infamous ones. Sleeping Beauty, it was arranged at birth, so not much choice there. Snow White, I can see why, but he did kind of save her life and going to old traditions that may have been a way to show gratitude. Ariel, though never speaking to him, did take time to get to know him. It may have been three days, but this takes place in the past when not having kids by age 16 is rare. So Jasmine, I'm going to be honest, can't defend herself much. However, she did take time to spend with Aladdin at several points. Plus, she had to marry, so why not go for someone who she fell in love with? Better than most girls in real life who daydream over boys who pass them in the hallway, which is present in many shows nowadays that most Disney-Princess-bashers claim they'd rather their children watch.

Issue #6: Sleeping Beauty let everyone else save the day for her while she did nothing.

She became comatose after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel, which, as Maleficent said, would put her in a deep sleep until true love's first kiss broke the spell. What was she supposed to do? She shouldn't have touched it! She had never seen one, so she wanted to know what it was. And by the looks of it, she also was somewhat possessed by Maleficent. Not much choice there for her.

Issue #7: Jasmine wasn't happy with what she had! She had it great! So she ran away!

I'm going to go with Ariel again. She's a teenager, and it's common for them to want more. Many do run away from home when they don't get what they want, including members of my own family. And I can see why Jasmine was so unhappy. She wanted to marry for love, but she was being forced to marry a man she didn't know at all because he was a prince. She wasn't allowed to do ANYTHING she wanted EVER because she was a princess. And that's realistic. In fact, most teens are so spoiled that they cry every time they're not allowed to do something, then they say how they never get to do anything, their parents suck, blah blah blah . . . Jasmine is better than that. She's not really much of a habitual runaway, and when she finds someone worth sticking around for, she sticks around so she can be with someone she loves.

Issue #8: Belle shows that you should persist on in an abusive relationship, and that it's important to be beautiful!

. . . Okay, did you even SEE the movie? Like, actually sit down and watch and listen with your actual eyes and ears? She doesn't care one bit about being pretty, she just is, and never does she flaunt it! And abusive relationship? Yeah, he was controlling, but they aren't in a relationship much until the end. In fact, within the last few minutes is when she confesses her love. Most of the time, she's just being his captive, but does find the best in him and bring it out. How is THAT negative at all?

Issue #9: They all teach you that you have to be beautiful, but not too beautiful or people will be jealous.

All of them were just naturally good looking. Is that too wrong to teach? Use your natural beauty? And they NEVER flaunt it. The Queen from Snow White was just crazy, that wasn't Snow White's fault! In Mulan, she disguised herself as a boy and wasn't able to use her beauty. She was all gussied up to see to become a bride, but that's more of a gender role set in the time period than anything else, not her choice. None of them looked to use their appearance. Ariel did change her appearance drastically, but only so she could BE with a man, not so she could PLEASE that man. Was she fine just the way she was? Maybe, but you try having relationships with people who are part-fish! What are you going to do, have a picnic on the beach? If so, better bring plenty of fish food!

And finally, possibly the biggest issues next to doing nothing to get what they want:

Issue #10: They're never punished when they do something wrong.

Yeah, BullCRAP! Cinderella wasn't supposed to go to the ball. What happens when she was? She was locked in her room when the Duke was there, so she couldn't get her happily ever after. Ariel wasn't supposed to ditch her father during the concert, collect information about the humans, nor go on land. What happens when she does this? For the concert she's scolded, and for her collection and falling for a human, her most prized possessions are destroyed. And you thought getting your cell phone taken away for a week was cruel. And she does defy him. Her voice is taken away and her father is nearly killed for it, to which she does take full responsibility. Jasmine may not be punished much for running off (security around her was just doubled around the clock which is still lame), but wasn't she punished enough with having to marry someone she didn't love? Belle would have been punished for leaving the Beast had he not pretty much let her go and had he not been injured. She even helped him! Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) touched something she wasn't supposed to and wound up comatose for it. They ARE punished, maybe not enough for YOU, but they ARE.

Did I miss anything? Have anything to add or argue? Tell me below!