Disney Princesses Are Bad Role Models For Young Girls

I'd like to first start off with a common problem through out all except perhaps one of the princesses. They are all dependent on someone else (which is typically a man), especially the older princesses. They frequently are in need of a man's strength and wisdom to come and save them. The Disney Company created the true damsels in distress by using the prince charming as a gateway. I'm going to focus predominately on the first three movies that were created because I feel as if they are the strongest examples of dependency. First, Snow White is a seamless case of the dependency on men and the typical woman role. She lives with seven dwarfs whom take her in after she invade their home. The entire premise of their welcoming is that she can clean and cook. Snow White then takes the mother like role of the seven dwarfs and become more or less the servant of the house. She cares for all seven of them and eventually the jealous witch makes her appearance and poisons her. Only true loves kiss could break the spell, which of course means that a man has to come and save her. While romantic, Snow White lays in a slumber, helpless. It is only when the prince comes and kisses her does she wakes from her death-like coma. In Cinderella, the poor girl becomes the housemaid of her own home and she is constantly tormented by her stepmother and step-sisters after her fathers death. There is a ball in which she is unable to attend because of the cruelness of her stepmother. She does everything she can but realizes there is no hope and ends up sulking in the backyard when all of a sudden her fairy godmother comes and makes all her dreams come true. With a wave of her wand and a cute little song, the fairy godmother does away with all of the negativity in her life until midnight. She goes back to living her terrible life as the prince tries to find out who the girl he fell in love with that one night was with the only clue he has; her glass slipper. Eventually he finds her and takes her from her dreadful life, making her a princess. It is clear that if it had not been for the fairy godmother and the prince, she would have ended up dying as the housemaid of her own home. Second is princess Aurora, who is cursed by another jealous witch also falls into a coma like state in which she has to wait countless years for ‘true loves' kiss to break the spell. This yet again leads another princess to be dependent on a man. (Which is also very similar to Snow White). The bare bones of the story are identical to the story of Snow White. This theme also resounds in the newest of the Disney Princess films, Tangled. The story goes something like the princess was born with magical hair and was kidnapped as a baby. She was brought up in a tower, away from the world to protect her hairs magical capabilities. But before her 18th birthday she yearns to go see the lanterns that the kingdom sets off on her birthday each year. It isn't until Flynn Ryder. the biggest criminal of the kingdom climbs her tower to hide away. It's there she strikes a deal with him that she will give back the crown he stole (which so happens to be rightfully hers) in exchange for his guidance and protection on the way to the kingdom. She is very dependent on him through out the trip and while she uses her hair to fight off the bad guys, he is the majority of muscle and strength. Even towards the end of the story when she is being carted away by the woman she now knows kidnapped her, he comes to her rescue. The other princesses also showcase this such as Pocahontas, Ariel, Belle and Mulan. I feel as if the following would make good cases as well but perhaps not as good as those that I've expanded on.