My Daughter Dressed Like Elsa From “Frozen” For 23 Days Straight— And It Was Amazing (barf alert)

Salon ^ | VANESSA MCGRADY | FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 06:00 PM

[CatherineofAragon]

"Now, at nearly four, ain’t nobody going to tell her what to wear."

She would if you had control of your daughter, you idiot.

[Talisker]

Let’s see, a mom who can’t say no to her daughter, and no dad because he said no to mom.

Fits.

[bgill]

Now, at nearly four, ain’t nobody going to tell her what to wear.

Oh, Vanessa, you poor thing. You'll have no one to blame but yourself.

[A_perfect_lady]

I don’t see the problem with this. Little girl wants to wear a nice, old-fashioned long princess dress, and mom lets her. So?

[right way right]

I’m just thankful her daughter is not really a boy.
I want to celebrate that.

[Salamander]

Neither do I.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

And the little girl who lived upstairs from my Grandparents, and who was my best , earliest friend, wore her red cowgirl boots everyday. To this day, she is known as “Bootsie.”

[Yaelle]

I don’t have a problem at all with the article. I have a daughter the same age. You don’t have to die on every hill when parenting, people. The daughter sounds bright and she is three and she went through a phase. Like the mom says, she doesn’t have much control. Her mom is working all day and her life is fully scheduled. To the little girl who still wrested a bit of harmless control, I say Bravo.

Those of you who plan on or already did raise kids with your iron fists, because you know who’s boss, I’m just going to shake my head. P.S. Google the Duggars because spare the rod and spoil the child doesn’t always work out so well.

[Safetgiver]

So? I wore a Zorro costume for two years until the nice men in white uniforms took me to the Casa la Cuckoo.

[tbw2]

At four and five, I let my kids wear the Halloween costumes that were socially acceptable until they wore out.
A Dora Princess dress is perfectly fine for pre-school and the playground, and wearing it in place of other clothes simply improves its utilization rate.

[TexasGator]

"I think I tried to wear my Davy Crockett Coon Skin Cap to school once, "

My best friend's brother was never seen without his even at school. Half Cherokee.

Friend and his brother:

[drewh]

omg that was hilarious! bravo cm..

[onedoug]

Does the kid have a father?

[MeshugeMikey]

On reflecting on the mothers attitudes as much as is possible..in this short family history, Id doubt that there is a father...in the home!

The mother exudes “Insufferableness”

[Popman]

I must be the only person in the country who has never seen “Frozen”

[RegulatorCountry]

My 10 yo niece sung that off-key for at least six months straight, lol. I can do without hearing it again.

[hal ogen]

Child abuse...pure and simple. LIBs are malignant idiots.

[Lonely Bull]

Although I don't quite cheer on this story for a number of reasons, I'm also among those who don't find it the worst possible article. I could imagine weirder things even before I read deep into it. Some possibilities:

- The titular daughter is a trans-daughter. If you do not heartily approve of a brave 4-year-old girl, you have no soul.

("First graders exposed to book about transgender boy—without parental notification": "The book is about a boy who identifies as a girl from the age of two, 'with a boy's body and a girl's brain.' He eventually finds a doctor who tells his parents, 'Jazz is transgender.'")

- The daughter is not 4 but 24, or 44, or 64...

- It emerges that the daughter is not actually her daughter, whether by birth, adoption, or any similar official arrangement. The article is actually not about the dress but about advocating a sort of relationship, which is currently undocumented; it must be accepted by the law and celebrated by everyone for the sake of social justice. How she came to procure the child may be never explained, or it may be rationalized in detail.

- The costume has been altered to express a leftist point. For example, maybe Helpful Mother has used glitter and sequins to add something like "DRAFT ELIZABETH WARREN" or "I'M 4 AND ALREADY WEARING A PRINCESS DRESS. FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY!!!" Maybe the ensemble is completed with a rainbow keffiyeh. I will award bonus points if the message is purportedly the little girl's idea.

- Maybe some basic princess dress is a constant, but the child demands expensive accessories, increasing by the day. Despite the author's misgivings about consumerism and consumption, she eventually happily obliges because the little girl's happiness outweighs the outmoded concept of financial balance. (Maybe she then wonders why less-privileged girls and boys can't do the same, and the article starts promoting higher taxes.)

- The daughter never wanted to wear the dress for 23 days, or even at all, but her mother forced her in order to make some "progressive" point.

- The daughter actually wanted to wear the dress, but the author didn't let her (even despite her general enlightened indulgence of children) because Princesses Are Bad. I can hear it now: "Racist, sexist, classist, lookist, ageist, anti-gay, / princesses and all their dresses all should go away!"

(I actually thought of this point before I read the quoted part of the article and saw related ideas therein. I'd be surprised if a Salon article about this subject didn't explain that the author isn't an unthinking conformist philistine who occasionally votes for Republicans.)

[T-Bone Texan]

The sentence you just wrote can be translated simply as “mental illness”.

[T-Bone Texan]

So, the “daughter” is really a metaphor for the love she never recieved as a child, or her daddy issues, or something.

Which is sad.