Anybody who's read more that two of my posts knows by know that I have a young daughter at home, and she absolutely loves the Disney princesses, and Disney movies in general. Like a lot of blue-state, liberal-arts, post-feminist people, I have mixed feelings about this. I worry about the influence these types of cultural cues have on children, especially girls, and the movies are a mixed bag of good and bad lessons. I want to take a minute and evaluate a few of them.
Sigh. I was going to write another long essay-form rant on the subject, a la my earlier entry on The Little Mermaid, but couldn't decide how to frame it coherently, so instead, I'm making my second list in the (admittedly very short) history of Caught Without a Parachute (the first, somewhat lackluster list is here).
