This should touch every woman who has ever felt that she wasn't good enough, or pretty enough, or skinny enough. It's one reason why I HATE the (Disney) princess phenomenon, which tells little girls they have to be pretty and... well... that's pretty much it. If I feel like it will be a struggle to raise my girls in this world, I can't imagine what women of color struggle with.
No child should feel that they are ugly or bad based on what they look like. Boycott the princesses. That is all.
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Wow. That made me so sad. Stupid Disney and their princesses. Who are they to tell her she can't be a princess???
I do love that she is doing such good work at such a young age though.
I have been pretty anti-princess so far with Claire. She doesn't know any of the disney princesses, though at one point she did wear princess pull-ups, she had no idea who they are. The last pullups she picked out? Spiderman. Whatever floats her boat.
However, we have a princess tea set (I wanted plastic, and that's the one MIL got), and a princess mega-blok set. I can't control everything I guess.
One thing I heard the director at Claire's school say that I liked was to another little girl in Claire's class. She had just said something like "I look like Belle - I'm pretty" and the director responded, "You're beautiful because you're you - you're your own person, and that's what makes you beautiful." Now obviously your average 3 year old doesn't understand that, but if she hears it enough maybe it will sink in.
OMG, that was stunning.
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