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fandomsecrets2014-06-11 07:16 pm
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(Anonymous) 2014-06-12 04:00 am (UTC)(link)They can, but they don't. Disney could easily put out Armor Mulan, In-Training Mulan, Everyday Clothes Mulan, and Pretty Dress-Up Mulan if they wanted to. But they're convinced that most of them wouldn't sell. Maybe they're right about that, or maybe they're wrong. They're one of the biggest children's media companies out there, so I feel they could probably reshape the expectations to some degree if they really tried. But they have no interest in doing that -- they just roll with the current zeitgeist.
And I'm not talking about pressuring any individual girl. But there are already a lot of individual girls who are getting pressured by people saying that liking action and fighting and sports and so on makes you an icky tomboy who can't ever be an awesome princess or get married or anything. (Slight exaggeration, but only slight.) Why is it okay to keep on letting them get pressured this way, and then act like it's the only way to prevent a complete flip-flop on the pressure, as if there has to be exactly one and only one archetype approved for girls? If Disney put out a movie even further along the spectrum than, say, Mulan or Brave were, where a princess dons knightly armor and goes out to save the day, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to all the Princess Classic movies -- but it'd be nice for girls who like to be the brave armored hero to have a role model for a change.