Comments on: Home Invasion

By: Jody

Jody — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:25:16 +0000

I care less now that my kids are almost seven and still haven’t shown any interest in seeing 1/2 of the Disney princess movies, even though I OWN THEM and offered to show them, and even though they all have Disney princess 12″ dolls (including the boy) and a ton of branded Disney stuff, including princess costumes (again, including one dress for the boy). I WAS seriously concerned when they were 4, though, and just getting a bunch of this stuff.

Why didn’t they go seriously nuts? Who knows. Did it do some sort of perverse unspoken damage? Who knows. [I'm not ruling it out, fwiw.] I definitely think it helps that they’ve spent a lot more time reading the original fairy tales, and that reminds me that I promised we’d get right back to The Snow Queen “after I quick checked my e-mail” and that was twenty minutes ago. Oops.

Happy New Year!

By: chris

chris — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:13:03 +0000

Hmmm. I don’t really care. Pink cheap crap is fine. Violent crap, not fine. I seriously doubt my daughter is going to grow up to be an anorexic princess waiting to be rescued by some prince with me as a mother regardless of what she plays with. Of course, I did just come back from Disney. Maybe they put something in my $2.25 cokes.

By: shannon

shannon — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:34:42 +0000

100% behind you.

To add to your list of their crimes:

anorexic thinness of all the princesses
presumed heterosexuality
race
race
race

By: 3cmum

3cmum — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:29:57 +0000

Same boat as many others. My mum banned barbie and virtually all TV at home and to this day I remember how much I felt like an outcast sometimes at school. We had no disney stuff at all with Daughter No 1 until she came home upset from preschool that she was always getting it wrong as she didn’t know who wore what colour. So I gave in. We had a month of serious disney but then she only really does it for b’parties. Even at Euro Disney she only wanted the Lion King stuff!

But my bigger worry is BRATZ. I can’t stand them and all they represent. They are so utterly horrible.

By: Jacquie

Jacquie — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:48:32 +0000

Boy, do I feel your pain. My weird uncle works at a Disney store and feels the need to buy us ALL (yes, ALL, 40 year old me included) Disney crap, not just at Christmas but year round. And when I say crap I mean crap. I’m appalled at the cheapness and tackiness of the stuff. Plus all the reasons you hate the stuff as well.