Getting annoyed at Disney movies

[Libby456]

I always get annoyed at Ariel when she gives up being a mermaid and will never be with her family properly again to be with Eric who will probably just play fifa with hit mates and leave Ariel with child care and the cooking.

I also think that Anna and Elsa's parents were really bad! they basically neglected Anna and were not all that helpful to Elsa.

Anyone else feel like this with disney?
Libs x

[PoundingTheStreets]

It's fairy stories generally.

Cinderella does my head in. She is such a helpless drip!

[Callani]

You're missing the one fairy dust ingredient for watching Disney - suspension of disbelief.

Also, try to forget any feminist inclinations whilst watching 95% of them...

Lilo and Stitch is good though.

[DoJo]

Don't get me started on Shanti from the Jungle Book!

[leedsgirl231]

They did try to help elsa but in the wrong way. "conceal it, don't feel it, don't let it show" NO ELSA. release your powers!

[Juliaparker25]

The workers at Disney world call it "Mousewitz) for some very good reasons .........

[notthegirlnextdoor]

Lilo and Stitch is my favourite.

"Sorry I punched you in the face."

[ArmyDad]

Just wish they would stop communicating via the medium of shitty ballads

[TheCraicDealer]

Just wish they would stop communicating via the medium of shitty ballads.

You go too far, Sir.

[ArmyDad]

Sir, (looks around) me?

[gordyslovesheep]

I love a good Disney

but if you need an antidote www.almostzara.com/2011/08/fallen-disney-princesses-photography-project/

[ICanSeeTheSun]

Mulan is good and so is brave.

[StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes]

There was a great book wich rewrote the fairy stories in a feminist manner, twas hilarious. Can't remember what it was called

[WitchWay]

They all have the same story but wearing different outfits. Even the facial expressions are the same.

Glad we're beyond Disney movies now

[girliefriend]

Yanbu I found Frozen possibly the most annoying, glad my dd hates anything princessy!!

[frizzcat]

I hate the Disney princess's, although thankfully I don't know all of them:
Snow White - if someone was that pale they'd be on a solid dose of iron. She also takes illegal possession of the 7 Dwarfs home and has the audacity to reorganise for them. The overbearing little twonk. And who the hell accepts food no matter how enticing, from an old woman with questionable hygiene. She has one tooth ffs who the hell knows where she's had that apple with her skank nails. The twonk however takes a bite. Then, she marries the first good looking fella she sees. That voice makes me want to brand myself with a hot poker. Roald Dahl does a much better job, Snow White steals the mirror and uses it to cheat on the horses.

Cinderella - a pretty frock, a dance and she's anybody's. No wonder the evil stepmother was so evil, the house was over run with mice because Cinders kept feeding them.

Frozen - where was social services? Did no one wonder where Elsa had disappeared to?

Sleeping beauty - more interesting when asleep

Little Mermaid - sees a fella once and she's all in-love, no care for her family or the fact that Ursula will take all her fathers power and turn him to sea weed. Oh no, so long as she gets her man, Ursula wasn't wrong when she called her "a little tramp"

Roald Dahl' Revolting Rhymes however is utterly fantastic where all the Princesses solve there own problems, although not always legally

My dd is 3yrs old, and if its pink, or a hint of a mermaid the possibility of a princess then that's what she wants. I have utterly failed, I've worked so hard not to fall into the pink trap and I've failed

[Libby456]

I like mulan, my dds loved watching that, and lilo and stitch, 101 dalmations, pixar films.
Maybe its because i was never a girly girl myself but i just never got the whole princesses need to be saved and fall in love. thats why i like new disney.
It sounds like im moaning and i do apologise!
I just cant feel happy for sleeping beauty or snow white. GET A LIFE FIRST AND THEN GO GET YOUR PRINCE!

And frizzcat- you havent failed.. a lot of girls go through that phase. Put on some scooby doo!

[Callani]

Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes is the best book ever - I can still recite Jack and the Beanstalk by heart where the Mum gets eaten 'cause she stinks!

I also loved Little Red Riding Hood who knocked off the wolf AND the pigs. Fantastic.

[BackforGood]

Ooch no - I miss a good Disney film now my dc are all older

[PoundingTheStreets]

frizzcat - it will pass. I have been very feminist in the raising of my DD and my DS. At age 4-5 DD still went through a very strong pink and glitter phase. It's because she started school and the cumulative peer and social pressure was too much to fight against given the average young child's desire to conform.

It was sad to watch her buying into the Hello Kitty type plastic tat that didn't actually do anything other than look 'pretty' (debatable) while her DB had far more interesting stuff.

By the age of 7 she had found her own little niche, embracing the elements she liked and dispensing with the boring stuff. She became (and still is) the sort of child who likes climbing trees, playing football, generally running around like her brother, but doing it in funky (rather than frilly) clothing and having a seemingly innate love of bling. And that's ok. AS long as our children's ambitions are never stifled by their belief that "girls/boys don't do..." it's fine for them to embrace some more stereotypical elements of their gender I think.