So this is another artikel I'm menulis based on a poling I recently done. This time the pertanyaan was "Do anda think a princess has to be perfect?" At the time I'm menulis this, 28 people vote 61% no, 39% yes.
People are allowed to have their own opinions and thoughts, that's something I will always respect. But when the topic of perfection is up for debate, it makes me wonder if people really have any idea of how harmful being "perfect" can be.
So some of anda might ask me, what's wrong with perfection? In what way can it possibly be harmful? Well, have a seat, make yourself comfortable, maybe get yourself some refreshments, because I'll be lebih than happy to explain.
Let me explain now why the idea of perfection is harmful.
So for centuries women have been taught to be polite, soft spoken, to be seen and not heard, to look as beautiful as possible, to be a porselen doll. We're told if we act a certain way that's not the "right" way we won't find husbands atau we'll be made fun of for being "different". Even girls today are taught this.
Why is this a bad thing? It's because if girls grow up thinking they're not perfect enough in anyone's eyes they start to hate themselves. And there's times where the stress can be so bad that they end up going down a dark road.
Now I cinta Disney, the movies, the tv shows, the actors they've had over the years, but the company itself isn't as nice as it appears to be. The company will threaten to api their child actors if they don't act the way disney wants them to act. If anda wear a bikini that's not "family friendly"? anda better hope anda have a huge fanbase atau you'd be getting fired on the spot. It doesn't matter how old anda are, anda have to look a certain way and act a certain way. Even if you're not on tv, anda know how bad that kind of pressure is? It's not pleasant at all. And as mentioned before it can be so bad that you'll want to walk a dark path, like alcoholism, drugs, atau self harm.
Esmeralda, I feel, is the best woman to use an example for this kind of topic. She's a character who has been talked about a lot recently and the way people here were saying reminded me of this bit of interesting trivia I read in the imdb page of her movie.
"Esmeralda's decision to marry Phoebus at the end of her film was likely the result of the way both Quasimodo and Frollo treated her throughout the movie, according to the Madonna-Whore complex: Frollo constantly viewed Esmeralda as an evil seductress, causing him to want her as his own and threatens to kill her if she refuses, while Quasimodo instead tampilan her as a pure, angelic being, seeing her as being only kind and caring. However, both portrayals are considered insulting to women, and Phoebus, seeing her as being feisty but good-natured, was the only male character that saw Esmeralda like a normal woman, therefore becoming her husband"
The way a lot of people talked about her was pretty much the same way Frollo would think; they focused mostly on how "inappropriate" she is, literally nothing else. There is so much lebih to her character than what she wears atau what she did in one scene. She's also very caring and wants to protect her people.
melati is another example, I've seen some negative komentar toward her about how "hard she is on others" when most of the time she's in the movie is spent with her standing up for herself. She obviously doesn't want to be forced into marriage, she obviously wants lebih than just being trapped in the palace her whole life, and she obviously doesn't like that people are, as she berkata "Standing around deciding my future"
Meanwhile the men are diberikan different treatment. Oh anda don't like Esmeralda because she wears that one dress? (that was somehow too inappropriate?) Well better not watch aladdin because he doesn't wear a kemeja for half of the movie! Oh and I'd avoid mulan too because Shang's shirtless for an entire song and there's one scene where the characters bathe which means they get naked
Oh and how could I forget the other princesses/heroines! I mean Ariel only wears a kerang bra for half of her movie! And Jasmine's outfit shows her stomach! And Elsa's blue dress is so tightfitting and has that slit on her leg! so inappropriate!
We are in 2018, can we please stop judging a woman's character oleh what she wears? If a woman likes to wear a certain outfit then let her!
The princesses and heroines, though not real, are human beings. Human beings are not perfect. Can anda think of someone in real life (and I mean real life, as in anybody anda actually know, not an actor anda love) who is "perfect"? Who is well-mannered and even-tempered?
In fact, the princesses themselves berkata they're not perfect in the upcoming Wreck it Ralph 2 movie, And instead of just picturing your favorit princesses as malaikat who could do no wrong, anda might notice that some of them are naive, don't think things through, act like brats, aren't graceful, atau aren't, as some of anda would say well mannered. I mean I cinta Mulan, she's my number one favorit princesses but I'm still aware of her flaws. She's not graceful all the time and while she does have some good plans they don't always end perfectly (avalanche and blowing up the palace)
Also these princesses are all teenagers and people feel the need to judge them oleh how perfect atau imperfect they are. Would anda do that to a teenager in real life? As long as the teenager isn't hurting anybody atau saying hurtful stuff why would it matter if they act atau dress a certain way?
Let teenagers be teenagers and let women do what they want that doesn't just involve them being the porselen boneka society wants them to be
People are allowed to have their own opinions and thoughts, that's something I will always respect. But when the topic of perfection is up for debate, it makes me wonder if people really have any idea of how harmful being "perfect" can be.
So some of anda might ask me, what's wrong with perfection? In what way can it possibly be harmful? Well, have a seat, make yourself comfortable, maybe get yourself some refreshments, because I'll be lebih than happy to explain.
Let me explain now why the idea of perfection is harmful.
Rose from titanic
So for centuries women have been taught to be polite, soft spoken, to be seen and not heard, to look as beautiful as possible, to be a porselen doll. We're told if we act a certain way that's not the "right" way we won't find husbands atau we'll be made fun of for being "different". Even girls today are taught this.
Why is this a bad thing? It's because if girls grow up thinking they're not perfect enough in anyone's eyes they start to hate themselves. And there's times where the stress can be so bad that they end up going down a dark road.
Now I cinta Disney, the movies, the tv shows, the actors they've had over the years, but the company itself isn't as nice as it appears to be. The company will threaten to api their child actors if they don't act the way disney wants them to act. If anda wear a bikini that's not "family friendly"? anda better hope anda have a huge fanbase atau you'd be getting fired on the spot. It doesn't matter how old anda are, anda have to look a certain way and act a certain way. Even if you're not on tv, anda know how bad that kind of pressure is? It's not pleasant at all. And as mentioned before it can be so bad that you'll want to walk a dark path, like alcoholism, drugs, atau self harm.
Esmeralda, I feel, is the best woman to use an example for this kind of topic. She's a character who has been talked about a lot recently and the way people here were saying reminded me of this bit of interesting trivia I read in the imdb page of her movie.
"Esmeralda's decision to marry Phoebus at the end of her film was likely the result of the way both Quasimodo and Frollo treated her throughout the movie, according to the Madonna-Whore complex: Frollo constantly viewed Esmeralda as an evil seductress, causing him to want her as his own and threatens to kill her if she refuses, while Quasimodo instead tampilan her as a pure, angelic being, seeing her as being only kind and caring. However, both portrayals are considered insulting to women, and Phoebus, seeing her as being feisty but good-natured, was the only male character that saw Esmeralda like a normal woman, therefore becoming her husband"
The way a lot of people talked about her was pretty much the same way Frollo would think; they focused mostly on how "inappropriate" she is, literally nothing else. There is so much lebih to her character than what she wears atau what she did in one scene. She's also very caring and wants to protect her people.
melati is another example, I've seen some negative komentar toward her about how "hard she is on others" when most of the time she's in the movie is spent with her standing up for herself. She obviously doesn't want to be forced into marriage, she obviously wants lebih than just being trapped in the palace her whole life, and she obviously doesn't like that people are, as she berkata "Standing around deciding my future"
Meanwhile the men are diberikan different treatment. Oh anda don't like Esmeralda because she wears that one dress? (that was somehow too inappropriate?) Well better not watch aladdin because he doesn't wear a kemeja for half of the movie! Oh and I'd avoid mulan too because Shang's shirtless for an entire song and there's one scene where the characters bathe which means they get naked
Oh and how could I forget the other princesses/heroines! I mean Ariel only wears a kerang bra for half of her movie! And Jasmine's outfit shows her stomach! And Elsa's blue dress is so tightfitting and has that slit on her leg! so inappropriate!
We are in 2018, can we please stop judging a woman's character oleh what she wears? If a woman likes to wear a certain outfit then let her!
The princesses and heroines, though not real, are human beings. Human beings are not perfect. Can anda think of someone in real life (and I mean real life, as in anybody anda actually know, not an actor anda love) who is "perfect"? Who is well-mannered and even-tempered?
In fact, the princesses themselves berkata they're not perfect in the upcoming Wreck it Ralph 2 movie, And instead of just picturing your favorit princesses as malaikat who could do no wrong, anda might notice that some of them are naive, don't think things through, act like brats, aren't graceful, atau aren't, as some of anda would say well mannered. I mean I cinta Mulan, she's my number one favorit princesses but I'm still aware of her flaws. She's not graceful all the time and while she does have some good plans they don't always end perfectly (avalanche and blowing up the palace)
Also these princesses are all teenagers and people feel the need to judge them oleh how perfect atau imperfect they are. Would anda do that to a teenager in real life? As long as the teenager isn't hurting anybody atau saying hurtful stuff why would it matter if they act atau dress a certain way?
Let teenagers be teenagers and let women do what they want that doesn't just involve them being the porselen boneka society wants them to be
I mean I wouldn't want to hear that Esmeralda is a Disney femal lead I resemble the most. "YOu have some traits in common with Esmeralda" wouldn't be unpleasant to me but "You are more similiar to Esmeralda than you are to Rapunzel/Pocahontas/Belle" would. I think the difference is pretty obvious.
And, yes, I am not ashamed of being self-dissatisfied and perfectionistic, I want to improve myself and I will become more self-satisfied only after I will improve my abilities and skills.
Also my absolute the saddest moment in Disney history, the only moment when I nearly cried( despite being 19 while watching it and never being particularly compassionate person), is when Mulan's gender was revealed and she was about to be executed. I refuse to re-watch this moment even now because it's too sad to me. I also hate Shang for not trusting Mulan and beind rude to her during the parade, this moment, I consider him unworthy of Mulan's love because of that moment. I was really frustrated by the moment when Mulan hugged the Emperor because I consider him responsible for her troubles and he never admitted that he was injust ruler by having such laws and never asked Mulan for apology for nearly destroying her and her family's life with his terrible laws. I don't know too many people who reacted similarly at these moments. How "mysogynist" and "traditionalistic" I am!
And as for hating female characters and any other characters whom you dislike, to each his/her own. Just don't expect me to endorse your viewpoint. You will just learn to live with those who don't like your views.
I agree that the DPs are just teenagers and people are too harsh on them. I don’t like all this talk about how the princesses aren’t perfect enough. I think this comes from people being too preoccupied with whether or not the DPs are good enough role models (the DPs are targets for getting picked on alll the time), when in fact, the DPs are perfectly fine role models as they are. The classics get criticized for being too weak and damsels, Ariel is considered too selfish, Belle too Stockholm Syndrome, etc. These people think that the DPs should be perfect to fit their lofty standards, and it’s too much. Esmeralda, Mulan, Belle and Rapunzel are role-model worthy. But I don’t think that’s the first thing they should be because all this pre-occupation with role-model worthiness is too much and leads to perfectionism. I heard that Esme was actually more selfish and flawed in the original Victor Hugo novel.
I agree with you about Jasmine. That’s why I like her - because she stands up for herself. And all studios and entertainment pressure their actors. It’s not just Disney.
and Swanpride did you see the poll I put up before I did the article? Yes and No were almost neck and neck the whole time, so yes there are people on this spot who expect the princesses to be perfect and there's at least one or two who believe that a princess has to be perfect to be their personal favorite. And it's not just on this spot that I see people saying harsh stuff about princesses while practically worshipping the princes, I've seen it on other spots and on different websites like tumblr.
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