To think this little girl is brilliant?!

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Princess day at dance school. All the girls arrive in their princess costumes except one. She has come as a hot dog. She has her princess costume underneath and says she is a princess inside!

Now how brilliant is that?

Well maybe because we can't all be princesses on the outside?

what qualities make a princess that girls should aspire to, why is being a princess on the inside a good thing?

What quality do all princess have that we should be wanting our daughters to aspire to?

What exactly makes a princess on the outside?

What is wrong with girls liking to dress up as princesses? My daughter enjoys doing it, should she feel ashamed of that?

If they were so pleased she didn't show up as a princess why did they tell them to dress up as princesses in the first place?

Have a dress as you please day and be done with it.

What does being a princess on the inside even mean?

I am mostly at the idea of a 'Princess day' and good on that girl for subverting it, whatever her intentions. (And even if the idea came from a parent, she must have at least bought into it.)

Seriously. I like plenty of princess stuff. 4yo DS bloody loves it and would be thrilled by a princess day. But I don't get wtf it's all about, I do think institutionalising it is massively regressive, and I think hurrah on the child/family who made a wtf response.

None of which means I think there's anything wrong with the other girls/children or their parents. It's ok to like different things. It's ok to like the crap you're sold as being 'for you', and it's ok to challenge that same crap, and it doesn't mean you're at war with each other.

the black girl, none of them would traditionally be a princess.

Seriously? There are loads of black princesses.

Try-hard parents trying to make something out of nothing. It's ok to want to be different, but articles like these have a nasty undertone of 'look at those silly girly girls, conforming to pink'.

'Princess on the inside', what contrived nonsense .

My DD has that hot dog outfit!

It's lucky the poor girl didn't overheat with a princess costume underneath her hotdog outfit. That's a lot of padding and polyester.

*Today 17:54 TheRugbyValkyrie

"I don't get why being a princess on the inside is something to admire?"
Well maybe because we can't all be princesses on the outside?
The tall girl, the one with braces and glasses, the chubby one, the one with learning difficulties, the one who lives with a foster family, the black girl, none of them would traditionally be a princess. The qualities of a princess come from inside so it really doesn't matter if the princess is wearing a pretty dress or looks like a hotdog!*

I thought the qualities of being a princess come from which family you were born in to, not what you look like?

That's what I thought, Nineties, poor kid must have been sweltering.

Bleuch!

I thought the qualities of being a princess come from which family you were born in to, not what you look like?
Absolutely this. You forgot you get to be a princess if you're lucky enough to marry a handsome prince. That's what we all want for our daughters.

What is wrong with girls liking to dress up as princesses? My daughter enjoys doing it, should she feel ashamed of that?

You do know on MN only boys are allowed to dress up as princesses

What a non story. She probably literally just meant she was a princess on the inside as in she was wearing her princess outfit underneath or 'inside' her hotdog outfit. That's all. Very cute but not inspirational.
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Ds loves dressing up as a princess. We had loads of princess outfits. You couldn't bribe ds into one.

I have loads of happy memories of Dd dressing up as a princess. I couldn't care less if people thought I shouldn't be doing it. Dd wanted to, that's good enough.

I would like Dd to be a lot of things. Kind, confident etc.....but never have I thought 'I hope she is a princess in the inside too' or 'I hope she aspires to a princess on the inside too'

I just don't understand what it means and why it's something admirable?

That first line should read 'Dd loves dressing up'

It's not that's there's anything wrong with dressing up as a princess, it's the expectation that it's something all girls want to do.

Tell little girls it's 'princess day', get them to dress up as princesses and then take the piss out of them when they shove on the fancy dress their parent gives them. A really shitty thing to do. I bet a boy who turned up dressed as a hotdog on superhero day claiming to be a superhero on the inside wouldn't be described as 'brilliant'. It's just stereotypical girls interests that are policed like that. They are relentlessly marketed to to conform and when they do they are ridiculed. They can't fucking win.

There are loads of black princesses Not in Disney there aren't - the Frog Prince and Pocohontas and now I'm struggling . . .

Perhaps there are lots of black princesses on birthday cards - nope.

Personally I really like the idea that this family are suggesting that princesses come in any shape or size, not just pink and fluffy

at a girl dressing up as a hot dog being described as 'liberal shit'

Does anyone else remember the little girl years ago on MN who had been invited to a princess and fairy party but didn't do dresses or pink (or pale blue for Snow White) and didn't want to go. Another brilliant MNetter discovered khaki coloured camouflage tuile and made her a tutu and matching camouflage vest, along with an ammo belt strapped across her, which she wore with DMs and leggins as a tough fairy.

Not in Disney there aren't - the Frog Prince and Pocohontas and now I'm struggling . . .

But since all the girls were dressed as princesses, princesses were coming in different shapes and sizes.

Unless all the girls look like actual Disney princesses and identical to each other, i don't get the your point.

By you thinking any black girl was showing 'princesses come is any shape, size or colour'.