Killing our Mothers: Our Daughters’ Fairytales [This is feminist theory, it isn't a joke, and she is a child care worker]

chavelah · 2011-10-01T18:15:34+00:00

Bitch be crazy.

But other, not-crazy folks (including me) do wish that Disney wasn't so hot to kill off or otherwise remove or marginalize mothers. It's possible to make exciting films about children who aren't cast out or orphaned or both.

I think Disney has made a lot of progress in this area (Rapunzel, for instance, get her mom back AND gets to inherit her kingdom AND gets her chosen prince). But sometimes, such as when your main protagonists are a pride of lions, it's just bound to be a disappearing-mother situation.

girlwriteswhat · 2011-10-02T19:09:39+00:00

As the main object for the Princess is to cement a relationship with a prince and in doing so negating herself, the mother must be destroyed or nonexisistent.

I never understood this attitude. Getting into a heterosexual relationship requires that you negate yourself?

ENTP · 2011-10-01T18:04:04+00:00

tl;dr

The mother/daughter bond, a human relationship with the most potential for significance, the birthing of a female child from a female person, is also one that is targeted by males for elimination. The princessification of little girls is a deliberate strategy by males who are invested in their supremacy. Princesses do not need mothers but they do need a prince.

Title	Killing our Mothers: Our Daughters’ Fairytales [This is feminist theory, it isn't a joke, and she is a child care worker]
Author	thetrollking
Upvotes	8
Comments	6
Date	October 1, 2011 5:22 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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