Posted on 10/08/2011 8:46:01 AM PDT by Mandingo Conservative
Girls the world over often go through a "princess phase," enthralled with anything pink and pretty — most especially the Disney princesses.
When it happened to Peggy Orenstein's daughter Daisy, the contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine stepped back to examine the phenomenon. She found that the girlie-girl culture being marketed to little girls was less innocent than it might seem, and can have negative consequences for girls' psychological, social and physical development.
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I prefer girly-girls. My 16 y/o step-daughter is basically a boy in every way BUT anatomy and cannot figure out why the only boys that are willing to spend time with her are gay.
I think most of my childhood was spent playing Princess.All of the other f=girls wanted to play Mommy and house but not me I had a scarf and a plastic tiara I wore.I remember the day I told Daddy I was going to grow up and be a real Princess and he told me we were American and did not have Princesses. :((
I think most of my childhood was spent playing Princess.All of the other girls wanted to play Mommy and house but not me I had a scarf and a plastic tiara I wore.I remember the day I told Daddy I was going to grow up and be a real Princess and he told me we were American and did not have Princesses. :((
Far more destructive is the feminist push to convince young women there should be no distinctions between the sexes.
I am SOOOO allergic to this pink princess stuff.
My mother (a Math major in college) told me (computer science) to “be useful, not decorative”.
I used the same principle with my daughters. One is an engineer the other is an entomologist (insect scientist). And neither of them wear the color pink!
You should have asked him if he’d ever heard of Grace Kelly.
The bad thing is when they don’t grow out of their princess phase and grow up. They become middle aged princesses divorced and alone with no one to manipulate.
I think the author makes some valid points, but she is over applying the broad brush by dismissing the whole idea of girls wanting to find their definition as female, which is a phase many of them apparently go through when they are about 3-5 years old.
I think the author makes some valid points, but she is over applying the broad brush by dismissing the whole idea of girls wanting to find their definition as female, which is a phase many of them apparently go through when they are about 3-5 years old.
She named her daughter Daisy though...sounds girlie girl to me. Just don’t name your daughter Chastity!
My daughter grew up with the pink-princess phenomenon. She is the girliest girl you can imagine, and at 23 this jaw-droppingly beautiful young Christian lady has boxes of makeup and hair-care products, tons of clothes in Lilly Pulitzer pink, and is always perfectly manicured.
She can also drive a tractor or a six-horse stock trailer, run power tools, break a horse, ride to hounds, handle a shotgun, and get a very nice placement with the handgun she carries. She can do hard physical labor all day, in all weather, and in her last job she ran a crew of tough men. She can handle her liquor and her finances. In other words, she’s like her mother and grandmothers.
So in general I think being a pink princess is just fine, and the people who want to discourage girls from being feminine are leftists.
There is nothing wrong with being attractive and “useful”. Pink is a pretty, happy color, and I wear it. Colors make me happy.
When my granddaughter was little, she said the dinner blessing and she ended by saying “god let me be a real princess”. She’s 14 and still my princess.
Football players are sporting pink now. At first I was a little upset to see our quarterback with pink accessories on the field but it is for a the cancer cure. As a girl I personally love the color pink. I like the pink and black combination too as it brings me back to my ballerina days.
Well, like my father used to say, for a few years in her life, every woman gets to be a Princess. We can just snap our fingers and get whatever we want, and no matter how b*tchy we act, men will call us “tempestuous” and “spirited.” Then he said, we hit the Reality Wall at around 30. I guess I will find out in a few years.
The reality wall really depends on how you age. Some women at 30 look 40 and some like me looked 18.
That sound right. Plus, it helps if you swap out your “prince” every once in a while. LOL!!!
Nothing wrong with girly fantasies, but it is the larger cultural poison of entitlement, “everybody gets a trophy” precious snowflake stuff that makes the princess mindset toxic.
When I was growing up I had British books from the turn of the century, and Kipling, and CS Lewis’ Narnia, that stressed that being a leader or being royal meant to use your power to serve your country, kingdom, or army. Being served was ONLY so you could concentrate on wielding your power and intellect to serve and lead. If parents were smart enough to introduce that ethic into their daughters’ princess meme, they would raise some amazing young ladies.
Can’t say much. It’s a lib writer waking up to some of the nastier products of the lib culture, but somehow blaming it all on pink and princess.
But, about one of her child’s typical toys, she says: “And all over the box and all over the instructions it said, ‘It’s all about me.’”
So, she doesn’t focus on the REAL problem here, but kind of turns it into another feminist rant against traditional little girl stuff. The article is incapable of real focus, because the author is part of the culture she is criticizing.
I must admit that when I read the title, my first thought was, Well, lady, if you don’t want your daughter to grow up into a pink princess, then you’d better transgender her before it’s too late!
I think she really does want the best for her daughter, but doesn’t know exactly what’s wrong with her world.
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