Orenstein began with an anecdote expressing her frustration with the princess theme, then talked about different product lines with the princess theme. From there she jumped from criticizing mothers that fell for the princess trend to how Disney’s princess product line started and finally finishes with references to studies about change in different aspects of a girl’s life. Along with their differences in approach, there also was a major difference in effectiveness. Poniewozik’s article was much more structured going from movie to movie explaining its impact on a girl’s life and stuck to one point which came across very effective. Orenstein, on the other hand, jumped from topic to topic without much of a connection and supported her claims with very little evidence, so it failed to be effective in getting her point
So many girls have this fantasy of being Cinderella and having a “fairy tale” life, but what version of Cinderella and what types of fairy tales are these girls looking up to for their idea of an ideal life? In Marcia Lieberman’s essay “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” she opposes the views of another scholar, Alison Laurie, who believes that fairy tales are something that radical feminists would approve of because the stories, “suggest a society in which women are as competent and active as men, at every age and in every class.” Lieberman argues that it is popular fairy tales--the ones that we all know and the ones we read to our children--that actually acculturate the masses of young girls in society, therefore the lesser-known stories cannot
A few years ago there were movies such as his examples “Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Powder Puff girls” Where women were very fierce and self defendant. Women could “kick-butt”, and we watched these movies where the women were portrayed as the hero’s. Before that, the fairy tales were pretty much the “back-in-the day” old fashioned versions where the princess was an innocent being who got rescued and swept off her feet by her prince charming. The author explains that drastic change that has occurred, and if you think about it, that is pretty drastic, going from a helpless innocent girl who gets rescued from her dull or evil life by her prince charming. Then it altered to where the “princess” was then a hard core very strong and good fighter who could easily defend herself.
Unfortunately, the wannabe aims to please the Queen Bee, doing anything to get in her good grace. The movie Mean Girls will illustrate the evils of social acceptance, either you’re in the ‘in’ crowd or you’re out. Directed by Mark Waters, from a screenplay by Emmy winner Tina Fey, Mean Girls is a fictional comedy based on Rosalind Wisemans’s New York
In this story Panttaja says it is both mothers that are wicked. Panttaja states the real mother “plots and schemes, and she wins” (Panttaja 660) when it comes to fulfilling the wishes of Ashputtle. But actually the two mothers have the same goal in mind; to have their daughters married off and have a joyful life. To be able to do this, the real mother puts a charm on the prince to make him fall in love with Ashputtle instead of anyone else. The prince did not dance with anyone else all night and would always say “she is my partner” (Grimm 630).
21 Aug. 2006. 2 June 2009 This source discusses the anger of beauty pageants. Beauty pageants promote the sexualization of young girls and provide to those involved in pedophilia. Parents are the ones who are at fault for exposing and subjecting their daughters to the sexual use of beauty pageantry. I’m going to use this info to prove that Beauty pageants aren’t just for fun and games, that there child could be in danger .
2 September 2013 R8 W131 In his article “The Princess Paradox”, James Poniewozik claims that movie makers are marketing to young women’s desires with the image of tiaras, ball gowns, but adding a modern, feisty leading lady. Poniewozik explains that there’s been a shift in the way these leading ladies have been represented; they have gone from being just plain tough without ball gowns and tiaras, to kicking butt while wearing ball gowns and tiaras. These girls are not just worried about getting the prince or even the gowns, they want to do more than that, and they want to make a difference. The authors states that today’s women are still drawn to a princess story, but they want a modernized version with a strong, self-empowered woman.
A Jungian analyst, Jacqueline Schectman, examines the tale to find a sympathetic Stepmother in "'Cinderella' and the Loss of Father-Love." The chapter concludes with "Cinderella's Stepsisters" by Toni Morrison, which focuses on the evil women inflict on each other and appeals to women not to treat each other with enmity but to nurture each
The fact that most fail to realize, as pointed by the author, is that these two mothers want the same things: they both want the best future for their daughters, and both mothers are willing to do anything to ensure that it happens. It is, however, Cinderella’s mother who surpasses and comes in first place. Panttaja believes Cinderella succeeds in winning the prince’s hand at the ball not because of the goodness of her character, but because she was able to stay loyal to her mother. By doing this her mother rewards her by giving her the most beautiful appearance in the entire kingdom. Cinderella succeeds through her mother’s magic, deceit, lies, and disguises.
Accordingly, Helen in “Helen in Hollywood,” is used by the cosmetics advertisement. The cosmetics advertisement uses her as a tool to gain a lot of money. Since people want to see her as a beautiful superstar, cosmetic helps her to cover up her weak points and strengthen her beauty. In other words, cosmetic creates a beautiful woman: “…Max Factor didn’t help her though the make-up helps us see what we would like to take her for” Hence, it can be concluded that her image is perceived as the object just like cosmetics, and she is taken the advantages of by the