Comments on: What Little Kids Learn from Cinderella

By: grammar nazi blitzkrieg

grammar nazi blitzkrieg — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:29:43 +0000

someone can’t spell “blonde”

By: sinny

sinny — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:11:59 +0000

…wow…it was a joke someone made and you people turned it into a complete rant. i knew disney was teaching sexist stuff, but you guys have really looked into it. well…ummm…im gonna return to my life now.

By: CitrusMew

CitrusMew — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:39:09 +0000

Haha. |D

By: CitrusMew

CitrusMew — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:37:55 +0000

Haha. |D Let’s watch Barbie in misery while makin’ sandwiches. Nothin’ better. |D

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:39:15 +0000

She makes sandwiches for Ken.

By: trumps

trumps — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:29:30 +0000

Ugly people are ugly. This makes them bad. And smelly too.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:02:55 +0000

‘it’s a fairy tale, for God’s sake’ – yeah, and fairy tales reflect attitudes in the society where they originated.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:01:32 +0000

How about ‘women can’t get anywhere unless a rich guy comes along and marries them, but only if they’re pretty enough and have little feet.’

By: B

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:15:18 +0000

When I was a kid and I watched the older (i.e. good) Disney movies all the time, even when I was around 3-7 years old, I didn’t think of anything they did in those movies as life lessons. I just watched the movies to enjoy them.

Seriously, it’s a fairy tale for God’s sake. Most kids don’t watch fairy tales to learn lessons, they watch them to be entertained.

Even as a kid I knew that most people didn’t get married within a few days, or one day in a lot of fairy tale cases, of meeting each other. Most people and children have enough common sense to know that this hardly ever works in the real world. (oh who am I kidding? everyone’s IQ is dropping by the second)

I’ve already had my childhood shattered by all the other crappy junk Disney has been doing these last few years (with the exception of Princess and the Frog), so do we really need to take one of Disney’s classic movies, and twist the story around to make it sound like a damn tabloid?
If every fairy tale had too much reality in it, the world would be even more depressing than it already is.

Yea, I know the chart here itself is meant to be funny, and I thought it was, until I read the comments. Come on people!

P.S. No, I’m not blonde or pretty.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:08:45 +0000

Also, Yasmin didn’t really solve her problems by marrying, Alladin did.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:06:31 +0000

They don’t let children read history books where you live? Really? The library here has half an aisle dedicated to history books written for children.

By: Sammiesue

Sammiesue — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:16:15 +0000

Yeah, and Mulan married Shang in Mulan II.

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:37:07 +0000

Disney has some great movies, and lessons ARE learned in some of them too. I loved Disney movies as a child…but I think my parents also made sure there was a line between ‘movie’ and ‘life’.

now, Lion King, that was a good movie

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:32:20 +0000

OK, you’re right, I was reading too fast But please note that I actually do like Disney movies from a “youth memories” point of view – please read my comment below.

By: bionelly

bionelly — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:31:52 +0000

Aside from having green skin, Maleficent (from Sleeping Beauty) isn’t really that bad-looking either. Yeah, she’s creepy, but she’s kind of pretty in her own way.

By: bionelly

bionelly — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:30:01 +0000

Well, most of the good guys in that movie (including the beast) were much more strange-looking than Gaston. Plus, just like with the queen in Snow White, it was pretty obvious that one of the main reasons he was a villain was that he was obsessed with how good-looking he was to the point of thinking he should get whatever he wanted simply because he was so handsome.

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:56:08 +0000

Frollo had giant frog eyes I’m just saying, most Disney villains have a varying amount of creepiness over them that identifies them as the bad guy.

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:54:00 +0000

your*

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:53:30 +0000

Scar – the name says it all. People with scars = bad, WTF?
Are you saying you think The Queen of Hearts was *not* differently drawn? Maybe not deformed like Quasimodo was, but hardly normal.
And we never really get to see the bad guy in Bambi, so your point is?

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:50:33 +0000

Yes, Lilo and Stitch was a welcome alternative! And I’m not saying all Disney movies are like this, but most with human(oid)s are. And don’t get me wrong, I like Disney movies but they’re just a bit… off sometimes. Also has to do with the time period they’re from of course.

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:46:59 +0000

Maybe I worded my comment wrong. My point was that most(!) Disney movies end with “they marry/end up together and live happily ever after”, thus becoming a message that as long as you get married in the end, all is well. And is it me, or did Pocahontas and Mulan both end up with the guy? I vaguely remember Pocahontas giving everything up to join [strike]Jake Sully[/strike] John Smith in England in that terrible sequel?

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:43:12 +0000

Anatomically correct being bulging with giant muscles? But yes, I see you point.

By: random rambling woman

random rambling woman — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:50:51 +0000

I get the point, but I’ve never really bought into the whole “girls learn bad things from Disney” idea. I never expected reality to mirror Disney movies. Sure, when I was a kid, I sometimes played princess, but I more often played Star Wars or Indiana Jones, lol. But I never expected my life to be full of those types of adventures either. And when I was really young, my favorite movie was the Wizard of Oz, and I had invisible friends that were characters from that movie. But again, once I was old enough to think about the future, I never expected such things to happen in reality. I rejected the idea of “there’s no place like home” for a while, though, as a teenager, but that’s a whole different story.

Maybe my parents just did a good job of teaching me that movies were just for fun…and I’m starting a collection of Disney movies to show my kids, when I have them

By: Lanna

Lanna — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:12:35 +0000

I never really cared for Cinderella. Ariel and Meg (although not a princess) were my favorites.

By: Professor

Professor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:27:43 +0000

but Barbie (back then anyway) was a independent and success-seeking woman… she was like an astronaut, doctor, lawyer, rockstar (rofl) ON TOP OF BEING RIDICULOUSLY FABULOUS.

Now she’s pretty lame :/

By: Callista

Callista — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:54:15 +0000

I never understood that complaint… You can’t very well expect something that talks about omnipotent extradimensional beings, entropy, evil, and the best and worst of humanity to be all about fluffy clouds, rainbows, and kittens, can you?

By: Me in IL

Me in IL — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:46:12 +0000

Another learned lesson: All stepmothers are evil (along with: All mothers die).

By: TheObject

TheObject — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:57:30 +0000

There actually are. Certainly not in the majority, but they occur at a 1:4 frequency in some of the Western China sub-groups. Given, it would not be accepted at all in our culture to make a blonde Chinese character who did not dye their hair.

By: TheObject

TheObject — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:42:39 +0000

and yet, significantly less graphic than The Bible.

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:17:27 +0000

Well, there’s the bad guy on beauty and the beast. Anatomically correct. Otherwise, the bad guys have always been deformed in some sort of way

By: Callista

Callista — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:28:12 +0000

Not for me; I was fascinated by them as a child. So many children’s stories are fluff and nonsense; I wanted something a bit more real, that didn’t treat me as though I was a fragile idiot who needed to be coddled. (Not coincidentally, I was also fascinated with history–something they do let children read, and which is every bit as unlikely to pull punches as Grimm’s fairy tales.)

Oh, and Disney’s Cinderella is an obvious Mary Sue. She’s more blatant than most Mary Sues in Legolas-lusting teenage girls’ fanfiction, and that’s saying something!

By: ORLY?

ORLY? — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:46:57 +0000

Really?
Well talk about growth O.O

By: bionelly

bionelly — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:19:56 +0000

…Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, The Lion King, Bambi…

By: bionelly

bionelly — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:11:54 +0000

Most of the things I’ve seen marketed as having Disney Princesses (mostly books and dolls) include Pocahontas and Mulan, but not Giselle. But yeah, even assuming Rapunzel ends up being ranked with the other princesses, that’s still less than a third blondes. That’s more than you’d probably see in the general population, but it’s hardly an overwhelming majority.

By: Girlysprite

Girlysprite — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:55:04 +0000

Do keep in mind that the movie is from 1950, and at that time that was ‘normal’. A lot of stuff made at that time is sexist by current standards.

By: MiakoSamuio

MiakoSamuio — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:33:13 +0000

Then my hearts makes some really messed up wishes.

By: MiakoSamuio

MiakoSamuio — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:32:42 +0000

Still has better morals than the bible.

By: jamisings

jamisings — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:56:24 +0000

And Ralph Lauren.

By: zappafrank

zappafrank — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:08:49 +0000

Where’s the slice for not knowing what you got (till it’s gone)?

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:03:39 +0000

But ladykitteh’s complaint isn’t about what the heroes look like, it’s about what the villains look like.

By: Andria

Andria — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:59:13 +0000

I don’t know, I always found Gaston’s muscles deformed looking. That could just be because I’m not a fan at all of the body builder look.

By: Meishere

Meishere — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:58:27 +0000

Of course.

By: Wolverine Girl

Wolverine Girl — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:32:48 +0000

And Barbie Dolls, of course.

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:56:00 +0000

Yeah. The whole “blond princess” thing is not as prevalent in Disney films as some people think. Granted, lately part of it is having non-White princesses who wouldn’t have blond hair (not a lot of naturally blond Chinese girls), but even with their White princesses, you have the black-haired Snow White, the red-haired Ariel, and the brunette Belle.

By: wrockintheballroom

wrockintheballroom — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:55:36 +0000

also you could add that they learn a dream is a wish your heart makes that sounds retarded but true

By: sevenmarie

sevenmarie — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:27:01 +0000

also, don’t forget that mice are sexist!

[Jack:]
And I can do the sewing!

[Girl Mouse:]
Leave the sewing to the women
You go get some trimmin’
And we’ll make a lovely dress for
Cinderelly!

By: Cricket

Cricket — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:06:21 +0000

Disney didn’t have a blond princess in 1991; 1991 was Belle, and she had brown hair. In fact, Disney’s last blond princess was Aurora (Sleeping Beauty).

Giselle has red hair, but you’re right, Rapunzel is blond!

And that’s only 3 out of 11 blond princesses. (That’s including Pocahontas, Mulan, Giselle and Rapunzel. They often aren’t thought of as Disney Princesses. Rapunzel may be, we’ll have to see.)

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:26:23 +0000

True, in fact, that was kind of her whole thing, huh?
And Clayton (“Tarzan”) wasn’t bad-looking. And Lady Tremaine, the villainess in–appropriately enough–”Cinderella” might not be drop-dead gorgeous, but she’s hardly ugly or deformed. And what about Frollo from “Hunchback of Notre Dame”? Again, not a knockout, but it’s not like you’d see him walking down the street and think, “Dear God, what’s wrong with that guy?” And there’s Narissa from “Enchanted”…

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:15:17 +0000

Giselle from “Enchanted” is blonde.
And the upcoming “Tangled” seems to have Rapunzel as a blonde, as well.

By: Ms B ♥

Ms B ♥ — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:14:39 +0000

Another pretty villain: the Queen from Snow White.