Snagged one of your signature stickers (which needs to be a tee, you’d sell a ton, themed for the holidays to my mother alone who wears the saucy Sylvia, “This is as merry as I get” sweats for ritual morning wear. and wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and say how much I ‘lmao’ on this princess post. I’ve written much on this topic myself, esp. in our ‘All Things Girl’ series: http://www.shapingyouth.org/?p=4507

Also wanted to share a great subversive/sardonic kids coloring book called “Girls Are Not Chicks” (did a prequel here in this post about meaningful manga graphic novels for kids/Gandhi, Mandela etc. http://www.shapingyouth.org/?p=9375)

It’s now in my permanent baby shower gift bin! more on it here:

http://www.reachandteach.com/content/article.php/20091204143446972

Thx again for the smile…

Over the years, and again recently for Thanksgiving, I get to talk with my niece and sometimes her friends. “Get married, make babies,” is what they get, what they are supposed to feel. Be a mom. And some of them are absolutely charmed with the idea of being a mom, to be sure. The people I get to talk with are fairly intelligent and seem mostly immune to the peer pressure and what pressure they get from adults, except it can be a hard life out there, and as I said, some of them are absolutely charmed with the idea of being a mom. Who isn’t? But the pressure is out there, I guess. Though, admittedly, my sample size is spectacularly small.

‘The Paper Bag Princess’
“She tells him he is a jerk and runs off happily into the sunset alone…That is more my kind of story.”

Yeah, mine too! Thanks for the suggestion.

I’m not sure I see much message of hope.

I think it’s possible Disney was trying to say that Jasmine, though forced to marry, was ALLOWEd to marry someone she loved in the end.

I have a book called ‘The Paper Bag Princess’ in which the princess’s castle is burned down and her betrothed prince is captured by a dragon. All her things are burned up so she wears a paper bag and she goes on an adventure to rescue the prince. When she finally gets to him he complains about how she doesn’t look like a princess. She tells him he is a jerk and runs off happily into the sunset alone.

That is more my kind of story.

Sadly, young adults I know in Chicago at this very time are subjected to this kind of bombardment. It’s a real-world truth. Maybe there is some message of value in the Disney story for these kids? Maybe at least some message of hope? I’ve not seen this movie so I don’t know, but I do know it’s usually hard to find good things to say about Disney movies in general.

Hey, dollin, could you join up on More Women

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So good to see you at the party. You are fabulous.

xo Grace

The imp in me also believes that that is the reason all the smurfs are ‘blue’ as well.