Disney Characters In Peggy Orenstein's Cinderella Ate My Homework

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Peggy Orenstein’s book, “Cinderella Ate My Homework” (2011) characterizes the famous Wholesome to Whoresome Disney characters. (111) Peggy’s book talks about famous pop stars that were considered wholesome and set good examples for the younger students , and grew up to be whoresome women who have children still following in their negative footsteps. She uses different Disney character’s for example Miley Cyrus, who started who started as an imperfect regular teenage girl like everyone else and secretly a pop star. Then she slowly started taking sexual pictures until it got out of hand and viral. Brittany Spears was another one she used that turned Whoresome with her innocent sexuality. More examples include Zoe 101, who got pregnant at 16,

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