Talking about princess culture really chaps my rear. Why? Because growing up in America as a woman, I can totally relate. Here I am, 22 and about to graduate college and I feel this pressing image to be in a serious relationship with Prince Charming.
Don't get me wrong, I have an intense respect for those in great relationships in college and I'm not bitter when another girl friend of mine becomes engaged. I'm very happy for them in fact. What gets me is whenever an older person asks why I don't have a boyfriend at my age, as if that is the protocol.
As women, the princess culture requires our power to be in our physical attractiveness and the man that we win. But what they never told us in Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty is what happens next? Is society telling young women that being a glorified, attractive housewife the key to being a successful woman?
And if so, how do we collectively remove this stigma and reverse the pressure to be that if the woman doesn't want to be? I know that many women can say that they don't fit that mold but those same women will tell you that it doesn't change the fact that they wonder if something is wrong with them for not.
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