Comments on: Evil, thy name is Disney

By: Amyesq

Amyesq — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:10:31 +0000

P.S. On the other hand, investing in Disney and taking advantage of these little kids desperate to have that light- up thing and the ten dollar snow cone might not be a bad idea. But that’s just the way my evil mind works.

By: Amyesq

Amyesq — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:08:26 +0000

I am so, so frightened. At a recent party, two of my neighbors, each a mother to a four year old girl, compared notes about some damn Princess Dinner they went to at Disneyland where they dressed up, ate a 25 dollar cheeseburger, and got autographs from and photos of various Princesses. When I expressed my absolute horror, they warned me that one day I would be taking Katy. No, actually, I really can confirm that I won’t be doing that.

By: afrindiemum

afrindiemum — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:04:58 +0000

my mother took my niece and nephew to that exact same show (yes, in columbus). ugh.

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:26:29 +0000

Oops! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:25:03 +0000

We haven’t shown any of the Disney princess movies except Cinderella. We have read a few of the books in various wiating rooms, and the kids did receive Mulan, Cinderella, and Ariel for their birthdays. (William had specifically been requesting the mermaid.) These demons are in the ether, so you can’t avoid them, even without a MIL buying tickets to shows. However, we’ve done our part to fight the patriarchy by reading the original versions of the stories in as many different fairytale books as possible. So far (we haven’t read Mulan yet), all the original versions are much more complicated and less overtly icky than the Disney versions. ESPECIALLY Beauty and the Beast.

Well, not the Little Mermaid. That one’s worse in the original, I think. But we haven’t read that one yet, either.

I think we’re pretty lucky in that the kids use their princess costumes to be a variety of people, not just the Disney clones. So they don’t look like loonies in the world, they can speak the language, but they also haven’t seen the movies. It’s possible to sort of do the whole thing part-way.

(Can I confess to liking the animated Little Mermaid in college? Now I watch and think, ack, I cannot let my children SEE this! But yeah — I loved it.)