Tags: Disney, girlie girl culture, pink princess culture camd
Posted January 29th, 2012, in Creepy Marketing, Princesses, Why I Wrote CAMD | 10 Comments
Oh my God, Cinderella’s ball gown ate Mulan!!! No!!!!!!! The one Disney “princess” (though she is no princess and never marries a prince) I loved, the one I gave my daughter to stave off the others, the one I scoured ebay to find has been made pink and pouffy! Poor Mulan, this against everything the character stands for! It was bad enough that the old Mulan doll came wearing a hanfu, which, if you’ve seen the movie (as I have, approximately forty million three hundred and seven times) she despised. The hanfu (a Chinese kimono) was how they served her up hoping she’d bring “honor to us all” by being pretty and marrying well. But Mulan didn’t want to do that, even before she snuck off to join the military. She always wanted to be her own person. Anyway, Rebecca Hains, whose book Growing Up With Girl Power just came [...]
Tags: CAMD, fighting back, girlie girl culture, pink princess culture camd, princess culture
Posted January 18th, 2012, in Princesses, Why I Wrote CAMD | 30 Comments
Rebecca Hains, best be known these days as the woman who got busted by the TSA for trying to take a red velvet cupcake through airport security, is, in her real life a media studies professor at Salem State University and author of Growing Up With Girl Power; Girlhood on Screen and in Every Day Life. She is also mother to a little boy who loves “My Little Pony,” a show, Rebecca says on her blog, that, like the beloved Powerpuff Girls, appeals equally to both sexes, defying the notion that boys/men won’t watch stories about girls/women. I have to admit I’m not a “My Little Pony” aficianado—my daughter was never into them and I recalled the old show as being inane, and largely about selling toys (the fact that the ponies were revived for the Hub, a TV station owned by Hasbro, and are skinnier and “prettier” in their [...]
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