Personal Narrative: Disney Princesses

Television and movies have been the first to introduce me to any job I ever wanted to have. My fervent electronic media consumption started young, and my tastes were not extraordinary by any measure. Disney Princesses convinced me that being a princess was not a title, but rather a fairly unoccupied career path. I wanted to be an unabashed social climber. This all seemed so very reasonable, since they all seemed to have to work hard at being kind to local villagers, animals, and inexplicably enchanted objects to achieve their goal of being promoted to nobility. Or rather, they had to do all of this to remain in power. Never were they asked to write down their goals, or to visualize what they wanted. They never had to consider how to “have it all.” My ambitions seemed in reach, as the most popular female characters preoccupying my screen time were princesses, and so I saw their role as not unusual, but rather the normal. The normal being so pervasive, that until I decided that princesses were “babyish,” it was the only thing I ever considered doing. …show more content…
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