Cinderella Ate my Daughter

Arugement:

The author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter argues that gender specific toys like Barbies, American Dolls, Princesses and any domestic type toy teach young girls and boys the wrong views of the world. To some extent I agree that the plots in the movies are wrong and not every girl is put on earth to be pretty and to get married but these are the fairy-tales we have and we can't change it. I think that this author is going to absolutely drive herself insane if she continues to pick apart each and every aspect of Disney princesses and all things pink. It totally sucks that this is the world we live in but we still shouldn't take the imagination and fantasies away from the children. I mean my male cousin at one point played  "house" and "dolls" with us all the time and my family saw nothing of it. I myself had a playskool tool table that I was pretty obsessed with for awhile and I would go around pretending to fix things in my PINK tutu. I think that watching and playing with these toys are okay as long as other options are available to your children. Also I think it depends on the child too, my sister was a Disney fanatic and I mean I watched it because it was on but I didn't really care for it. She loves anything musical and to her the songs are all she cared about, not the plot. To this day my sister can recite any and all Disney movies but if you were to ask someone in my family who was the more "girly" daughter, all fingers would point to me.

Although with that being said, I dont like the message that these toys and movies portray, here's a video on Disney, She swears a lot but she gets her point across!