What’s wrong with being a Princess?

Critics, academic researchers and parents alike seem to be quite quick to judge Disney for corrupting their children through their fairytale movies.
Personally I think that Disney does a good job of instilling good morals and promoting positive character traits, especially among women.

Each Disney Princess and the main female characters closely associated with the Princesses like Mulan and Pocahontas have strong personalities and fight for what they believe in.

Princess Jasmine refuses to be forced into arranged marriage to any man with whom she is not in love with.

Cinderella puts up with her unjust circumstances to eventually be rewarded with love and happiness.

Belle breaks the Beast’s curse by overcoming superficiality and falling in love with him based on his personality.

Mulan abandons the comfort and security of her home life to pose as a man and enlists in the war so that her aged and disabled father will not be forced to go,
and Pocahontas tries to combat hatred between her native people and the English explorers. She demonstrated how differences can be overlooked as she tries to bring the two worlds together.


The appearance of these women is also worth mentioning. They are all of differing skin, hair and eye colors, and all from different social status’ and areas of the world. They do not subscribe to a typical race, lifestyle or gender role, and in my opinion would all be considered to be great role models for young children.

Most importantly all of these films are all age appropriate, entertaining and contain a good moral in their stories.