Disney Princess or Pathetic?

I finally manages to force myself to read the whole of the Mills and Boon book for my lecture. What. A. Pile. Of. Shit! So after going to a party at her ex's dad's house the rich guy saves her from, well from nothing really. And then they go back to he is place and spent the next day in bed together, fall out, work together a couple weeks, then realise they're madly in love with each other... Good job too cause that one day they slept together got her knocked up.

I better not describe it like that in my tutorial tomorrow!

But Mills and Boon aren't the only franchise that like to create pathetic women. To be honest most films, books and tv shows have shit female leads. But Disney is really bad for that. Like really really bad. The Princesses are just shit! Like grow a pair eh?!

1. So we had a conversation a while back about Snow White, pretty much just that she's a hussy. And I totally agree. She's all innocent and fourteen. And her stepmother thinks she's a threat? She's fucking fourteen! Really? She's still a kid! Then that woodsman guy lets her off because shes beautiful, she moves in with seven men (the Seven Dwarfs) and proceeds to cook and clean for them, like a good little housewife. The she go saved by true loves kiss bullshit. But the prince only fell in love with her cause she was beautiful. Some fairy tale. Can't wait for that to happen.

2. Next we have Cinderella. The poor girl gets abused by her stepmother and sisters after losing both her parents. Her life pretty much sucks. But her friends (the animals of the estate...) make her a pretty dress to wear to the ball so she can make the prince fall in love with/rescue her. Evil step-family wreck her dress :(. Buuut the Fairy Godmother swoops in and makes her a new one yay! So she goes to the ball, and love at first sight, until she has to run off at midnight, back to her pathetic life of cooking and cleaning. He stalks her with her shoe (how is stalking romantic?) and happy ever after. Right.

3. Aurora. *Why do they all have weird names? Whats wrong with normal names? Anyway she's so important the whole kingdom get's a holiday when she's born (on another note, why was there a bank holiday for the royal wedding but not one for the future King being born?!) but really it was just an excuse to betroth her to Prince Phillip so there kingdoms wold be besties. Nice birthday present. Just what I always wish I'd got right! Cue an evil fairy curse (death/enchanted sleep. She was pretty pissed off about not being invited, remind me to always invite everyone I've ever met to things!) and good fairy gifts (beauty, being able to sing and not actually death just the enchanted sleep). After years of being lied to Aurora meets a random guy in the forest, with some more love at first sight. Yeah aha. Next she finds out she's been lied to, and that she has to marry some prince not the guy she loves. Enchanted sleep, loves first kiss blah blah blah. Oh, oh wait random is the prince so yay he saves the day and there's no heartbreak. At least not in the Disney version, I don't think it would have been as popular with the whole rape and childbirth thing.

I do have more but it's getting late again, and I have a lot to do again. But the rest of this will be up soon, I promise. Cause slagging off Disney is just too much fun! *I fucking love Disney btw!