#StickIt
*cracks knuckles*
I don’t know why ya’ll keep trying to play this game, but fine, let’s play:
From left to right
Jasmine- Got tired of her palace life and took control by disguising herself and running away to spend a day in the markets. Openly expressed her contempt for the idea being married off without her consent. Was initially disinterested in Aladdin because she thought he was just another arrogant prince. Fell in love with him for his heart to the point that his pauper origins didn’t matter to her.
Rapunzel- Wanted celebrate to her birthday by not being imprisoned for once, nothing to do with a man. In fact when a man broke into her home she swiftly knocked him out and tied him up. That man ended up loving her so much he was willing to die for her and her passionate love brought him back to life.
Snow White- Was a young girl being chased around by crazy old lady who was angry that she was pretty. Ended up negotiating her safety with some dwarves by offering her services as a cook and housekeeper in exchange for room and board. Was only “waiting“ for a man in that she was literally unconscious after being poisoned by a witch and a kiss was the only thing they could save her.
Mulan- Are you fucking serious? What about her story is her waiting for a man to save her? She literally saved her father, her love interest, and then her whole damn country. You could not have watched two seconds of that film and come away thinking she was waiting for man to save her.
Aurora- She was a 16-year-old girl forced to live in seclusion her whole life. Sue her for daydreaming a bit about romance. She still showed kindness to animals and loved her adoptive caregivers and was fairly content with her life. Definitely not pining away for a man every second.
Cinderella- Cinderella probably gets the the worst of being dragged through the mud by Edgy™ feminists trying to make a point. Literally she never asked for a prince to save her. She didn’t even really complain much about being forced into slavery by her evil family. She just wanted one damn night off and meeting the prince was ancillary. And in fact the person who first shows her kindness and empowers her to achieve her goals is another woman.
Pocahontas- Again now you’re just making shit up. She was not waiting for prince, in fact she was bored at the prospect of living an ordinary home life and disinterested in marrying the handsome warrior her father had set up for her. She ends up striking up a friendship with someone her entire tribe hates and distrusts, up to and including saving HIM from being murdered.
Tiana- You are not ABOUT to do my girl Tiana dirty like this. She worked her ass off to achieve her dream of being an independent restaurant owner, something practically unheard of for a young black woman in the 20s. Romance was the absolute LAST thing on her mind and again, her actions were fundamental in saving the life of the prince.
Belle- Again, she wasn’t interested in the big strong handsome man that everyone was saying she should be interested in. Because she saw past looks and recognized that he was a sexist and generally unpleasant person. It was her willingness to see past the exterior that saved Prince Adam.
Ariel- She wanted to be a human before she knew about Eric. She saved him from drowning. She defied her father the KING in a fight for her own independence. But sure she was waiting around for man.
Merida- Merida didn’t even have a love interest and the entire film was built around a rejection of that premise. This one is barely worth the time to acknowledge.
Tl;Dr: Your weak edgelord attempt to discredit Disney princesses and make girls feel shitty for enjoying them is bad and you should feel bad.
Not enough ice for that educational burn
Bonus from someone who’s actually Chinese:
Mulan defied her parents. Her parents didn’t want her to go to war. They wanted her to stay home and get married like most women did then. Her dad was 100% ready to die in war. Instead, she stole her dad’s armour and passed herself off as his son in a camp full of men.
Do you know how absurdly ballsy this is? Defying your parents is basically high treason in traditional Chinese culture. You’re occasionally even expected to help your parents break the law if they do because your duty to obey them comes above everything else. By the customs of that time, her parents would have absolutely been within their rights to cast her out or beat her for her disobedience. If she gets caught by the army, she gets executed. If she doesn’t get caught, she is likely to die in war. If she doesn’t die in war, it is entirely possible her parents might toss her out when she gets back.
Mulan would also, in all likelihood, have been secluded from the outside world since puberty, following tradition of the era. She would have barely if ever left her house in something like 6+ years. If male guests came around she would have retreated to a separate room and not interacted face-to-face with them – at best, she might see them through a screen or something. For the past several years. She went to an army camp and passed herself off as a man anyway.
This girl who had probably never really left the house in 6+ years ran off to join the army, going against one of the most important tenets of her society’s moral code, knowing full well that she might be thrown out even IF she survived the war.
Dishonour on your family, dishonour on your cow for that weak-ass attempt at being an edgelord. Mulan had balls bigger than the goddamn Imperial Palace.
FantasyBoudicca 