{"id":62,"date":"2007-12-17T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=62"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:02:50","slug":"barbie-is-a-suffragette-compared-to-disneys-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/12\/17\/barbie-is-a-suffragette-compared-to-disneys-belle\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie is a suffragette! (compared to Disney\u2019s Belle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the pink-and-purple cabal of the Disney princesses offer young, consumerist girls? The promise that wussiness, passivity, and being pretty warrant all the rewards of happily ever after. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20071224\/ehrenreich\">Barbara Ehrenreich makes a case <\/a>against the princesses at <em>The Nation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them. The most striking exception is Mulan, who dresses as a boy to fight in the army, but\u2013like the other Princess of color, Pocahontas\u2013she lacks full Princess status and does not warrant a line of tiaras and gowns. Otherwise the Princesses have no ambitions and no marketable skills, although both Snow White and Cinderella are good at housecleaning. \u2026 In Princessland, the only career ladder leads from baby-faced adolescence to a position as an evil enchantress, stepmother or witch. Snow White\u2019s wicked stepmother is consumed with envy for her stepdaughter\u2019s beauty; the sea witch Ursula covets Ariel\u2019s lovely voice; Cinderella\u2019s stepmother exploits the girl\u2019s cheap, uncomplaining, labor. No need for complicated witch-hunting techniques\u2013pin-prickings and dunkings\u2013in Princessland. All you have to look for is wrinkles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ehrenriech\u2019s essay is a stirring indictment. Her analysis helpfully zeroes in on just those reasons we should discard the tulle \u2018n\u2019 tiara squad, whose gentility and superficial benevolence serve to somewhat deflect our contempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the pink-and-purple cabal of the Disney princesses offer young, consumerist girls? The promise that wussiness, passivity, and being pretty warrant all the rewards of happily ever after. Barbara Ehrenreich makes a case against the princesses at The Nation: \u2026 what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/12\/17\/barbie-is-a-suffragette-compared-to-disneys-belle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barbie is a suffragette! (compared to Disney\u2019s Belle)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}