It’s Disney Princesses, Lip Smackers, Bratz Dolls, and Monster High Dolls, America’s Top Model when they’re eight and Keeping Up With the Kardashianswhen they’re ten, you know we just don’t want our daughters to measure themselves by the yardstick of whether or not they have the right outfit and the right makeup.ģ. It’s this constant barrage that’s telling girls to define themselves from the outside in rather than the inside out is really problematic. It’s hard to connect your sweet, little daughter in her princess dress with her little heels and her wand to a 14-year-old who is putting naked pictures of herself on Facebook, but it’s all part of a cultural continuum that tells girls, from the time they’re (increasingly) young that what’s important to be pretty and ultimately, sexy, to be the “fairest one of all” and to be the hottest one of all. What impact do you think this has on girls today? But, eleven years ago, this idea of taking all these characters and grouping them together under one and calling it “Disney Princess” and marketing them separate from any movie release is a ten-year-old concept and they did it and the first year it was a 300 million dollar success and now it’s a four billion dollar business and there are upwards of 26,000 Disney Princess products.Ģ. There would be a little bit of merchandising, but then they’d go back in the vault. The movies would come out of “the vault,” they’d play in the theaters or be release on VHS and then they’d go back into the vault. Before that, they had Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty or Mulan, but there wasn’t this idea of the Disney Princesses. I had no idea what a Disney Princess was. So, I did some snooping and it turns out, the Disney princess, as a concept, began around 2000. I didn’t know what she was talking about. When my own daughter came home from pre-school all of a sudden having memorized the gown colors and the names of the Disney princesses, as if by osmosis. You can follow her on Twitter at: Tell us a bit about the Disney Princesses… She lives in Northern California with her husband and their daughter, Daisy. S he has also been published in, among others, USA Today Vogue Parenting O, The Oprah Magazine Salon and The New Yorker. Orenstein is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Waiting for Daisy … and Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. We were very excited to talk to Peggy Orenstein, author of the new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From The Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, because we've been faithful readers of her writing in the NY Times, which, if you haven't read her yet, you can start now ( the archives are free).
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