~ Ｍａｃｉｎｔｏｓｈ Ｍｉｎｕｓ ~One thing that has been bothering me since watching Wreck-It-Ralph 2 and the She-Ra reboot is the realization that western media doesn't really have aspirational figures of feminine power for young girls that can't be fit into the label of "princess".
Elsewhere we have figures like witches or magical girls occupying the same space. We still use those tropes here - you can have western magical girls, for instance, but they generally ALSO have to be princesses of some kind.
There's nothing wrong with the archetype of "princess", but it does carry with it a lot of baggage: Historical, Cultural, and in the very power dynamics of its definition.
Stuart F. Otterson@QuestForTori On a slight tangent here. Since most modern princess stories are not just western creations, but specifically American creations, it has struck me as a little at odds with the country's history.
I dunno what it says about the psyche that fathers usually nickname their daughter 'little princess'. It's never 'my little president'.
And the media has an obsessional with telling stories of benevolent rulers.