Disney's Princesses
So I wanted to take a moment to talk about the princess theory. I recently read an article that said little girls are not interested in Kate Middleton because she is not meeting their standards for being a princess. An example of these standards include; being confined to a castle with a beast, being oppressed by evil step sisters and step mother, pining away in a tower with long flowing hair. At first this seemed obvious to me. What is interesting to a little girl about a lack luster real life version of poor girl makes it big? Should it be interesting? Should little girls value the prospect of being swept away into a rich overly publicized lifestyle of pomp and circumstance? Probably not. It doesn't even seem fun to me at my age! I, like almost every other girl, am a hopeless romantic. I don't like to admit it, but my head tends to stay in the clouds when it comes to love and romance. I don't even like chick flicks (except for those few that make me cry and wish some guy would express his love for me in some goofy public display). But I still hope to be swept off my feet! I must include at this moment that I am very happily married, and my husband makes me feel preciously loved. So even the happily married ladies seek it out!
So why am I, as an adult (questionable) hopeless romantic female not AT ALL interested in the Kate Middleton story? Is anyone else not as enamored with this whole thing as me? I tried to put my finger on it. Maybe it's because this marriage has not really been about love. Now, I am not in a place to say whether Kate and William are in love truly madly deeply. But in the short clips on the news that I caught it's not about the love... it's about the ring, the dress, the date, the flowers, the sister, the sister's dress, oh and let's not forget to compare Kate to Diana. I know this is a function of the press trying to feed the monster that is the superficial public. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in what Kate's wedding dress looked like. Hi, I'm MISSed and I googled Kate's wedding dress photos. But this wedding, this marriage, does not look like a happily ever after to me. More than once while watching the hype on TV the week before the wedding I sincerely felt bad for Kate, I thought "How could she possibly be happy?" "This isn't even about her" Can you imagine being Kate? How many of those wedding decisions do you think she actually had a say in? Hopefully you only get one wedding, and that was it for her.
What do you think ladies? Is Kate really living a fairy tale? Should little girls be more interested in her pauper to princess story?
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