Posted on 10/17/2018 5:06:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Although Kristen Bell absolutely loves reading to her kids before bed, she admits she's sometimes skeptical about the "lessons" her girls — 3-year-old Delta and 5-year-old Lincoln — are learning from Disney princesses.
"[Story time is] truly my favorite part of the day," Kristen told Parents. "I glance away from the book and see their brains working while we're all cuddled up like meerkats."
The 38-year-old actress says that despite playing Anna in Frozen, she has reservations about some of the messages in the older princess stories.
This is a modal window.The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. "Every time we close Snow White I look at my girls and ask, 'Don't you think it's weird that Snow White didn't ask the old witch why she needed to eat the apple? Or where she got that apple?' I say, 'I would never take food from a stranger, would you?' And my kids are like, 'No!' And I'm like, 'Okay, I'm doing something right.'"
Kristen also makes an important point about consent, as Snow White never gives the prince the go-ahead to actually kiss her. She makes sure she brings up the issue to her two girls as they're reading.
"Don't you think that it's weird that the prince kisses Snow White without her permission?" Kristen said she asks her girls. "Because you can not kiss someone if they're sleeping!"
And yes, now we're definitely thinking twice about the books we pick to read to our children before they hit the hay.
Hey, Kristen: it’s a freaking fairy tale. Many generations grew up with those fairy tales, and, as far as can be determined, the vast majority of children never grew up fearing or acting up like the people in the fables.
Kristen needs to grow up, and she’s stuck in her own fantasy world.
I love her eyes, I don’t like anything else about her.
She named her daughter Lincoln?!
Kristen Bell is cute as a button and a good comedic actress. But apparently she ain't too bright.
Snow White was “mostly dead”. The only reason she wasn’t buried was the dwarfs thought she was so beautiful they wanted to leave her visible so she would become part of the forest, and they built her a glass coffin so they could see her.
Kristen Bell is dumb as a post, and almost certainly isn’t reading the original Snow White.
I’ll bet 101 Dalmations has been scrubbed from most children’s media these days. Way too un-PC. Ethnic stereotypes, smoking, traditional gender roles including the adorable spaghetti scene.
Love Cyanide and Happiness.
Oh that’s right — gettin’ my dog movies mixed up.
Disney’s little mermaid: “I’m ALMOST 16!”
So in that movie, she’s 15.
Kristen Bell is a freak show libtard with a subservient metero hipster husband
She reeks victim identity motivation
Hear me roar really means I wet my pants
You made a good joke X
Clapping rhetorically !!!!
I’m disturbed she’s exposing her children to Disney stories such as Frozen. Disney has become an indoctrinator, teaching children to rebel against their parents and authority.
So the author is an airline pilot? LOL
“Lots of ‘tards are livin’ kick ass lives now...”
disney princesses in chronological order
Snow White (1937)
Cinderella (1950)
Aurora (1959)
Ariel (1989)
Belle (1991)
Jasmin (1992)
Pocahontas (1995)
Mulan (1998)
Tiana (2009)
Rapunzel (2010)
Merida (2012)
(UNOFFICIAL DISNEY PRINCESSES)
Elsa (2013)
Anna (2013)
Moana (2016
Snow White had no father
Cinderella had no father
Sleeping Beauty has a kingly father. He has arranged a marriage for his daughter. She goes through some Disney drama, becomes a “peasant girl”, falls in love with the prince she was already promised too, etc...
All of the other princesses come after NOW and the Communist Revolution in America. (1968, 1974, 1993, 2009, etc)
Isn’t it weird the coyote never dies after falling off a cliff, getting hit with explosives then having a giant anvil on his head?
Actually, Ariel of the ones that came after the classic three came the closest to being like them, and certainly wasn’t of the Communist revolution if that’s what you’re implying (heck, if anything, despite technically being Danish, she’s as American as pie in overall outlook). She at least actually WANTED to marry someone, and more importantly actually respected his decisions, even if it came badly for her (case in point: She never made ANY attempt at stopping Eric from marrying Vanessa, even when she realized the alternative, because she thought he chose her of his own free will. In fact, when she did interfere, it was only AFTER she learned Ursula was disguised as Vanessa in what was a clear violation of their deal). In fact, the only character in the film who actually adhered to NOW and Communist ideology was Ursula, who as you know is the main villain. And also, technically, The Little Mermaid as we know it actually had many of the same changes that Walt Disney himself actually intended for when he planned to make the film (probably the only difference is the ending, and I don’t mean Ariel died, more like Eric impales Ursula with the Trident instead of ramming her with a ship Die Hard-style).
Actually, if anything, it was the likes of Belle who came about as a result of the Communist revolution and NOW, since apparently Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded a “feminist twist” to Beauty and the Beast after the third rewrite due to complaints by critics against Ariel, claiming she was “cloyingly sexist” just because she actually WANTED to be with Eric, and that’s despite the fact that Ariel proved to be a badass and more importantly actually WANTED to become human BEFORE meeting Eric or even being aware of him. Heck, he even went as far as to bring in that feminazi Linda Woolverton to ensure it had as much of a feminist twist as possible, and in fact, he’s the reason she even HAS a job at Disney.
Well, to be fair, her father WAS pretty much downright genocidal against humans initially (the whole “one less human to worry about” remark was low, to be honest).
Besides, at least Disney’s version had a better message than the original tale, which effectively amounted to “screw over your family and everyone around you, and you can get an immortal soul should you commit suicide by relenting to kill a prince”. Quite frankly, the one in the original tale should have gone to Hell for what she did to her family and pretty much everyone else (heck, her committing suicide would have made her barred from Heaven anyway).
Well, to be fair, Beast only imprisoned Maurice. Belle just did a prisoner swap (and just as an FYI, said prisoner swap was Belle’s idea, and if anything Beast was taken aback by the plan). And I really wouldn’t call Belle a Stockie, since she does talk back to her captors quite a bit. If I were to bet my money on anyone suffering from that, it’s Rapunzel regarding Mother Gothel.
Actually, personally, I’d say that the movie has far WORSE messages in there than whether it’s okay to embrace Stockholm Syndrome. Namely, it depicts the guys as useless, mean, and/or goofballs, and there’s also Belle’s taming of Beast to such an extent that he is unwilling to fight back unless she was nearby. Oh, and it also pushes radical feminism by Linda Woolverton’s own admission. It even started a whole string of movies that pretty much condemn marriage as a concept, to the extent that the only characters besides Gaston who have ANY approval of marriage at all are depicted as dumb blondes and bimbos (as a matter of fact, they’re even called “the bimbettes” in the script and credits). In fact, you could call BATB the prototype of the Maleficent movie if you wish, made by the same woman in fact. Heck, nearing the end, Belle had no problem basically selling Beast and his servants down the river, even when she clearly was aware that Gaston had orchestrated the illegal arrest of Maurice via a mob just to force her hand in marriage to him. Oh, and it also seems to promote promiscuity as a good thing via Lumiere, especially when no one, and I do mean absolutely NO one, actually calls him out on it, certainly not Belle whom the story treats as a moral paragon. In fact, it’s the first Disney movie to change the storyline from the original tale in a radical fashion... NOT to clean it up for kids, mind you, but to push a socio-political agenda onto them. Yes, prior Disney movies have at times condensed and even radically altered the story, but most times it was so they could make them a bit more appropriate for children, not to push some kind of agenda.
To be fair regarding the prince and kissing her, the “kiss” is closer to performing CPR in that case, so I’m pretty sure she’d forgive him for kissing him in that case. Same goes for Aurora (besides, the Grimm fairytales were arguably worse in that regard, as Snow White was awakened accidentally by the Prince carting her comatose body off to act as a literal trophy, and in the case of Aurora, the prince (who was a literal ogre) actually raped her while she was asleep, got her pregnant, and it was her bastard [Disclaimer: I mean that regarding the dictionary term, not the expletive] children that got the spindle out by sucking it out of her finger and got her to wake up.).
And give her a break, Snow White practically had a very sheltered life, even WITH the queen enslaving her before trying to effectively commit infanticide on her, so it’s not likely she’d have ANY reason to suspect that peddler was her wicked stepmom, let alone that she was going to poison her with laced apples.
Ironically, Kristen Bell does have a point regarding some of the older DPs (older than Anna and Elsa, at least) having done questionable actions: Belle for instance made things worse in her film and overall acted like a brat for most of the first half, and in the second half arguably sold Beast and her friends out to get out of a jam.
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