Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-1416077-20131109184413

DisneyJr: Cinderella does nothing in her film. Her first dress? her vermin friends finished it for her; if they had not finished it, she would not have had a dress in which to go to the ball.

The dress got torn to shreds (it was, after all, made from scraps which were used without their owner's permission), so she cries until Deus Ex Machina fairy godmother arrives with her magic to save the day.

But... think about it for a second; IF the stepsisters had a moment of kindness and allowed Cinderella to go in the ratty dress, what would've happened? Well, Cinderella would've been in the peanut gallery with all the other nobodies of the kingdom, so the chances of Prince Charming spotting her would have been minimal.

Why minimal, you ask? simple: with the magical dress, she arrived A) fashionably late, B) stylishly fabulous in her magic limo and C) in an awesome, latest style dress that was so awesomely awesome that the prince did not even remember her face.

Let me say that again: The prince did not know what Cinderella looked like! Which lends credence to the point that he would not have noticed her (or her dainty feet) if she had been just another girl in the crowd.

So it is decreed that he will marry the girl whose foot fits the glass slipper. Does the prince go out to check out the dainty-footed girls in the kingdom? NO! the King's henchman, the Grand Duke, is sent to do the task. He was extraordinarily lucky that he did not pass by a household with a 13-year-old with dainty feet.

So, what does Cinderella actually do? NOTHING. She's her family's punching bag. She dreams of a better life, but does nothing to improve herself! Makes a dress? Nope, sorry; couldn't finish it in time... her vermin friends finish it for her. Fix the dress after it gets trashed? Nope. Does not even try; just sobs her heart out. Does she run away from her cruel family? Nope; she meekly does everything they tell her to do, no matter how unfair or cruel it is. Grand duke in the house; her vermin free her. Shooing away a cat is not exactly the stuff of epic legend. Without her rats and birds, she would've stayed locked away.

She does not even need to convince the Grand Duke of anything; the magic slipper transforms her dress in such a way that there is no doubt whatsoever that she is The One.

What does she actually do? Seriously. You know I LOVE the princesses, but Cinderella is an embarrassment to the whole concept of the "Disney Princess": 'keep quiet, work hard, suffer the injustice of others, and a fairy godmother will save you from that life even if you do absolutely nothing to improve your lot in life'.

At least Snow White does something; she improves the quality of life of the Dwarves through hard work and example.