And the one about Sleeping Beauty.
But seriously, I'M a feminist and I can't stand when people say Disney Princesses are horribly anti-feminist. Yes, it's true that the earlier DPs were the stereotypical Damsel in Distress, but that's because HELLO, they were based on fairy tales that presented women as Damsels in Distress! Don't get me wrong, I love and adore fairy tales, but many of the women in them are not exactly the best role models. Also, the earliest DPs, Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora, were in movies that were made in the mid-1900s, when women were still treated as second class citizens and expected to stay home, cook and have kids. The early DPs reflect the societal attitudes of the time.
The later Princesses (Pocahontas onwards) are very strong characters who don't need saving. THEY save their loved ones. But Disney haters conveniently forget about them.

Yeah... I have the DP Calendar 2012 and there aren't Jasmine pictures! but there are a lot of pictures with Tiana!

I blame the merchandise! Also the Tiana replacing Jasmine one.

and Artistically speaking The Sleeping Beauty is stunning

I love Tiana, but Jasmine's my favourite.
Also the feminist one. As a feminist, it always bothers me that other so called "feminists" choose to ignore the fact that each princess reflects the time they were made in.

They all sound exactly the same, they always conveniently forget a few of the DPs, and they have very superficial summaries of the stories.

not cool! jasmines my fave!

Probably this one the most out of these. I hate the direction feminism has taken. And I hate the faux-champions of feminism who flat out LIE about the desires of Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, and Ariel.

sometimes the articles are legit, you just have to search the proper ones.

The princesses never look right in the merch. it's always gaudy gradients and off model expressions, ugh.

^but the DPs all offer good lessons and as a whole are far more positive role models than a lot of toys/cartoons out there so I really couldn't disagree more. Especially since they all ALWAYS say the same nonsense over and over and over again: older DPs were worthless milksops who pined after a man, Mulan is superior, Jasmine let Aladdin walk all over her, etc. Or else they never specifically attack individual princesses and just do that annoying thing where they say all (except Mulan naturally) are stupid boy crazy fools who teach kids fourth-date marriages are good (because who needs common sense and analyzing stuff in context?) which proves they don't actually WATCH the movies because Merida, Pocahontas and Tiana do not fit the weak romantic stereotype at all.

I don't see how. It is the truth that some of the princesses are passive characters without their own agency (or the movie takes away their agency). it is true that most of the female characters have their stories focused more on romance than anything else (you don't see movies with guy male characters relegated to romances that much), this is a problem that affects female characters in general and not just the princesses. It is true that the majority of the princesses are white and the princesses of color are relegated to being tokens or stereotypes or representations of their race (Why can't we have two asian princesses? Why only one for each non-white race?). It is true that the princesses are impossibly beautiful and set impossibly high standards for little girls who are fat or plain in appearance to feel badly about how they look (but again, this is a problem that is found everywhere, not only at Disney).
Nobody is saying "these characters sux lol", and in fact some do have good attributes, just that it's interesting to notice the troubling patterns and elements in them that they share in common and that, yes, we would expect more from our female characters, esp. considering they make such an impact on our children. Nobody likes a passive character or a character without agency, male or female.

What the hell is a fourth date marriage?

Also, no, just because they're the princesses doesn't mean they the best/"Only good role models" at Disney. Despite most of the heroines also being relegated often to being romantic interests and damsels, they also offer a variety of personalities and struggles that could fit well alongside the rest of the princesses. The line is just a cynical marketing order invented to tear up the wallets of little girls' parents, really, so you shouldn't read "who is in the line" and who isn't as some gospel that Walt spewed out from his asscrack. If the line tomorrow said Mrs Potts or Madam Mim was a princess, would you say that's right? Who is in the line and who isn't is all a matter of money, copyrights and diversity. Giselle would've been in the line if not for Disney being greedy and not allowing to pay Amy Adams' royalties. Jane Tarzan isn't in line because the family of the authors keeps strict copyrights on the Tarzan characters. Eileen and Kara starred in box office flops so therefore no integration to the line.
If Hunchback had been an initial critical darling and made more money at the box office Esmerolda would be added to the line, with her goat plastered in glitter for all little girls to got nuts for. Disney would probably add Princess Leia to the line-up if it weren't for crazy Star Wars fans that'd hate to see the movies mixed up so casually. Star Wars fans are nuts and obsessed almost like OCD fashion with those movies.

this grinds my gears so hard. lazy feminism that leans too hard on shallow definitions of strength.

there's little room for alternative ways of fighting back (e.g., cinderella's mental resilience). it's usually about who punches the hardest and snarks the most, and "needing a man"/"needing to be saved" fast tracks you to having your achievements erased and your story written off as "not feminist."

tl;dr: second-wave feminism is dumb and embarrassing.

I agree with FlightofFantasy. I don't like it when feminists lump all the DPs together as if they are all the same. I think some DPs are strong, and others are somewhat passive. For example, Cinderella is given a reason to stay in her home in the 2015 remake (that movie made me appreciate Cinderella more), but I have always found it hard to understand why the 50s Cinderella is so obedient and tolerates the way she is treated instead of standing up for herself.