Response to, "What's Wrong With Cinderella?" p. 133-43

In this article, author and activist Peggy Orenstein asks what to make of princess culture. She is a longtime feminist journalist who is raising a 3-year-old daughter. She seems a little psycho to me. She flipped out in the dentist office when the dentist said to her daughter, "Would you like to sit in my special princess throne so I can sparkle your teeth?" If I were the dentist I would have thought she was a crazy bitch. I agree with what Andy Mooney, former Nike exec, told Orenstein (after talking about the Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles phase that boys go through) "The boy passes through. The girl passes through. I see girls expanding their imagination through visualizing themselves as princesses...and end up becoming lawyers, doctors, mothers, or princesses, whatever the case may be." I don't think that playing princess damages young girls. As long as the parents don't completely spoil the shit out of them. I always loved Disney princess like Jasmine and Ariel, but my parents never bought me tons of frilly purses and t-shirts that say "Spoiled." I think this woman is overreacting and overanalyzing. As long as she doesn't turn her daughter into a spoiled brat, I think that liking princesses is more than fine.