The Fairy Tale Perception

As I spend more time with my 2.5 year old nephew I am being re-exposed to a few of my childhoods form of entertainment, Disney movies. Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Little Mermaid, and Snow White are all movies about romance that we are all so familiar with. What a horrible perception of love these movies create! Nowadays we all have to learn the hard way what a functioning and healthy relationship should be, through heart breaks and crappy relationships.

The Beast, Arielle, and Cinderella all have a limited amount of time to get the other person to fall in love with them. In Arielle's chase she only has three days!! Mission impossible in real life, and those that do fall in love in such a short time probably won't love happily ever after because they have no idea what they are getting themselves into.

In so many of these movies the girls are so dependent on these princes to save them and to satisfy their everlasting desire for true love. Once again, not a good message for young girls because our current society requires a lot of independence so women can seek for their desired careers.

Lets not forget about the fact that love is really just a strong friendship between two people that are strongly attracted to each other (at least that's what I think), and of course their ability to co-exist with each other.

My nephew swears by anything that these characters do and say, and that just reminds me of how these imagines and ideas were engraved into my head when I was young but no necessarily correct.

Brainwash!