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Don’t Judge A Princess By Her Cover

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I struggled to relate to the old school Disney princesses like Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora. I found them a bit annoying and boring. Their perfect skin, their envious singing voices and ability to convince small woodland animals to help with the housework (I could really do with this one, I’ve tried encouraging the hamster to whizz the hoover round but he wasn’t keen) The idea that you need a man, who is a total stranger by the way and conveniently a rich prince *cough gold digger cough* to save you from your coma or curse and that you cant live
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happily ever after or even live at all until you find him is a bit pathetic. They are just a bit too perfect for my liking and we wouldn’t get on as drinking buddies. I watch these films with a massive eye roll and tutting good god get a grip woman! I’m not a man hating feminist or a loved scorned spinster as my own true love story involved a man whisking me off my feet, falling in love after five minutes and living happily ever after. But I am more drawn towards the modern characters like Elsa, Moana or Rapunzel. They at least have a sense of humour
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and a bit of kick arse about them. Elsa has a strong bond with her sister something I can totally relate to having two sisters myself and I would do absolutely anything for them, like Elsa and Anna our bond is strong. If one of them told me she was marrying some smarmy freeloading prince she just met I would definitely throw an ice rage and storm off to the north mountain or even plough through swirling whirling wind to find my her if she was the one alone and sad. Moana is a great role model with her own identity and she’s got good sturdy legs. She
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would definitely have enough stamina to last a night out in heels doing shots. She’s embarking on adulthood but she wants adventure and to escape her responsibilities whilst she can. She wants to explore the world as the sea is calling her. Something I felt as I reached my twenties although rather than “the sea is calling” my mantra was more along the lines of “cant wait to get out of this shit hole”. But like Moana I returned , grew up and faced life as an adult. Turns out it wasn’t a shit hole after all and I lived in a beautiful corner of
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the world. I wasn’t the princess of my own island like Moana but I am drawn to her anyway with her fearless sense of adventure.

But then I went to Disneyland. I was hit with magic and I couldn’t not love it. I was in my own Disney movie, I was the queen with my real life handsome king and my mini prince and princess. Our own little real life fairytale. Besides the rude reminders of real life in between the magic. The queuing, the tired fed up legs, the shopaholic eight year old princess, the shocking price of a cup of tea and me getting fed up of

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being everyone’s snack bitch and the rucksack carrier, I’m the queen ffs!!! I’m the queen! It was a powerful surge of fairy dust and I couldn’t help inhaling it. With so much joy and laughter I couldn’t help but feel guilty for my disdain towards the other princesses. They are all in fact powerful characters in their own right. Cinderella escapes slavery, Snow White is in hiding (living with seven men might I add, that deserves a medal right there!) for fear of being murdered by her own step Mother. Throughout their own stories of betrayal and
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freedom the they all have one thing in common. Kindness and courage. Throughout the deepest darkest parts of their lives they all remained kind and had the courage to carry themselves through to find happiness. An important lesson we could all follow a bit more. I know I will.
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- 13 Nov 18

I struggled to relate to the old school Disney princesses like Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora. I found them a bit annoying and boring. Their perfect skin, their envious singing voices and ability to convince small woodland animals to help with the housework (I could really do with this one, I’ve tried encouraging the hamster to whizz the hoover round but he wasn’t keen) The idea that you need a man, who is a total stranger by the way and conveniently a rich prince *cough gold digger cough* to save you from your coma or curse and that you cant live happily ever after or even live at all until you find him is a bit pathetic. They are just a bit too perfect for my liking and we wouldn’t get on as drinking buddies. I watch these films with a massive eye roll and tutting good god get a grip woman! I’m not a man hating feminist or a loved scorned spinster as my own true love story involved a man whisking me off my feet, falling in love after five minutes and living happily ever after. But I am more drawn towards the modern characters like Elsa, Moana or Rapunzel. They at least have a sense of humour and a bit of kick arse about them. Elsa has a strong bond with her sister something I can totally relate to having two sisters myself and I would do absolutely anything for them, like Elsa and Anna our bond is strong. If one of them told me she was marrying some smarmy freeloading prince she just met I would definitely throw an ice rage and storm off to the north mountain or even plough through swirling whirling wind to find my her if she was the one alone and sad. Moana is a great role model with her own identity and she’s got good sturdy legs. She would definitely have enough stamina to last a night out in heels doing shots. She’s embarking on adulthood but she wants adventure and to escape her responsibilities whilst she can. She wants to explore the world as the sea is calling her. Something I felt as I reached my twenties although rather than “the sea is calling” my mantra was more along the lines of “cant wait to get out of this shit hole”. But like Moana I returned , grew up and faced life as an adult. Turns out it wasn’t a shit hole after all and I lived in a beautiful corner of the world. I wasn’t the princess of my own island like Moana but I am drawn to her anyway with her fearless sense of adventure.

But then I went to Disneyland. I was hit with magic and I couldn’t not love it. I was in my own Disney movie, I was the queen with my real life handsome king and my mini prince and princess. Our own little real life fairytale. Besides the rude reminders of real life in between the magic. The queuing, the tired fed up legs, the shopaholic eight year old princess, the shocking price of a cup of tea and me getting fed up of being everyone’s snack bitch and the rucksack carrier, I’m the queen ffs!!! I’m the queen! It was a powerful surge of fairy dust and I couldn’t help inhaling it. With so much joy and laughter I couldn’t help but feel guilty for my disdain towards the other princesses. They are all in fact powerful characters in their own right. Cinderella escapes slavery, Snow White is in hiding (living with seven men might I add, that deserves a medal right there!) for fear of being murdered by her own step Mother. Throughout their own stories of betrayal and freedom the they all have one thing in common. Kindness and courage. Throughout the deepest darkest parts of their lives they all remained kind and had the courage to carry themselves through to find happiness. An important lesson we could all follow a bit more. I know I will.

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