Orenstein’s argument
is that girls are molded by industries such as Disney to believe that the only
way to have power and status is to be pretty, I.E. be a princess. Orenstein’s argument
is not without evidence, she discusses how in Disney movies you see princess’s
as breath taking in their appearance and they always have certain womanizing
personality traits. Take a look at beauty and the beast, the princess is
displayed as a good looking brunette who is looked at as strange for her
obsession with reading and has a drastically different appearance than the rest
of her town. Orenstein believes that girls are sent subliminal messages that
they need to be pretty and princess-like in order to be looked at as something special.
Girls will put masks of makeup on before going out into public in order to
place an illusion of beauty upon themselves and they will dress in clothes that
highlight the curves of their bodies all in an attempt to be attractive. The
one argument I have against Orenstein however is that people can mature, and
even if these subliminal messages are in fact being transmitted it is up to the
girl to have the intelligence and maturity to realize there is more to a woman
than just looking like a beauty pageant queen or a Disney princess.
I apologize for how brief this blog was, I'm not a girl so I had trouble getting into this...
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