But of all the princesses, only Moana escapes being presented as lithe, nubile, big-eyed and sexually alluring to straight adult men.
She's sick in the head.
In life as in fairytales, the truth comes out in the end. The kicker is when YouGov asks people to rank their favourite Disney princesses. Out of 14, the top six chosen are white. Of the non-white women, Tiana from The Princess and the Frog is rock bottom and Pocahontas second from bottom. Jasmine, Moana and Mulan cluster behind Merida, Rapunzel (fun girl, great hair, hostage), Cinderella (domestic slave goes to party, meets a foot fetishist, marries up), Ariel (gets a boyfriend, loses her athletic ability and her literal voice) and Belle (trafficked by her father, sold to a dog). The winner? Snow White, the ultimate masochist. Finds her bliss cleaning seven men’s toilet.
She needs help. And she's conveniently missed out YouGov's analysis that the ranking of favourite princesses had a direct correlation to what the general public had actually watched or were familiar with.
YouGov wrote:The data reveals a likely reason for Snow White’s pole position: she stars in what is by far the most widely-watched Disney princess movie. Almost three quarters of Brits (74%) say they have seen the 1937 film, substantially ahead of the second-most watched movie – Aladdin – on 61%.
If we look at the data another way: what percentage of people who have seen a given princess’s movie say that the princess who starred in that particular movie is their favourite? Under this measure, Moana comes out on top, with 17% of those who have watched her movie saying she is their favourite Disney princess.
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When its fans aren’t carefully answering poll questions to make themselves look open-minded and just list their favourites, they reveal that they like their princesses just like their Starbucks coffees: hot, skinny and white.
And here's the unwinnable line. The argument you can never win. Because however you answered this poll, it would have been wrong. Genuinely believe Moana is the best role model? Or that you simply like her as a character, devoid of any particular reasoning? Well then you were OBVIOUSLY answering the poll to only
appear open-minded. You're racist. Answer that your favourite is Cinderella? You're probably a racist and a pervert.
God, these people. It's just the Daily Mail in reverse, constantly trying to sow division somewhere,
anywhere they can find it, in the most innocent of things. The fact you can never do anything right with these people. Ever. Everything is wrong, overthought, over-analysed, dissected and rubbished. Hold a door open for a disabled woman one day and they'd find a way of writing a 1000 word essay on its hidden meanings.
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