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.
I’d be pissed if someone gave me CPR without asking my permission first! I don’t smoke, drink, or chew, or go with girls who do! So if some gal who smoked tried to save my life by giving me CPR...well, I’d sue her as soon as I recovered!
< / sarcasm >
Ignore the advice of father is in the post-1970 Little Mermaid
Considering King Triton’s “advice” amounted to “no surfacing even when there is no humans in proximity” (you know that merpeople are more likely to see us coming before we see them coming, right?), and, I should add, he implied he wanted to commit genocide against humans (the whole “One less human to worry about” thing), I’m pretty sure that is “advice” I wouldn’t even obey if my own parents gave, heck, my own parents or even grandparents would not obey regarding THEIR parents, and I share my parents politics in that I’m conservative. Heck, there are a few people who actually went against their parents in Nazi Germany by fighting AGAINST the Nazis, and NOT for the Communists either.
Besides, at least Ariel actually worked hard to save her dad and avenge him and tried to fix her mistake, which is against what post-1970 would advocate (if anything, post-1970 would advocate having kids act like, say, Francis from Malcolm in the Middle).
Let me put it another way: Alucard in the Castlevania series often ignored Dracula’s “advice” of committing genocide against humanity after his wife’s death, by your logic, this was trying to promote communism even when it’s clear that unlike Dracula, Alucard was actually on God’s side (when if anything, adhering to communism would have Alucard obeying Dracula and trying to wipe out all of humanity. Sort of like that horrible Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie).
Do you think she realizes she named her daughter after a Republican?
bkmk
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