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.
One time I took a bite from a poisonous apple and nearly died. Then Prince Chaming showed up and kissed me without consent! Sure, he saved my life and all but #MeToo
Sleeping Beauty @SleepingBeauty
@SnowWhite A very similar thing happened to me! He said it was okay because we knew each other "once upon a dream" or something. Whatever. #MeToo
The Human Race is finished.
Toast.
Yup.
First World Problems, sweetie.
Hahaha - they are literally getting crazier by the minute!
She has a point.
Consider the Little Mermaid.
The advice wrapped in this (tail) is:
Disobey your father and marry outside of your species.
Did she give her cars human girls names?
And all these folks doing CPR without consent! That needs to stop!
Don’t worry princess, men are realizing you are not worth the trouble.
Do you think I should wear more than clam shells on my bosoms? Yes.
Somehow I don’t think Kristen talks about that.
Or how the newer princesses are bratty and think whacking men is ok.
Perhaps the original is more to her liking: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm053.html
Heimlich Maneuver too
How about Beauty and the Beast? Fall in love with the monster that imprisoned you and your father. It worked out exactly as he planned. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.
Snow White @SnowWhite
@sleeping beauty
Don’t you think it’s weird that a woman would want to poison another woman? #MeeTooo
Sleeping Beauty @Sleeping Beauty
@SnowWhite
Yeah, but not as wierd as a woman who pays a man to stalk a prettier woman. #MeeTooo
Hansel and Gretal @Gretal
@SnowWhite;@SleepingBeauty
At least you didn’t have to deal with a woman who wanted to bake and eat you. Now that was really wierd! # MeeTooo
Rapunzel “let down your hair”
LOL. That’s hilarious.
But, if you watch it backwards....it's about a spoiled lying b@#$h that gets what's coming to her.
That’s nothing - her husband wanted to name them Husqvarna and Makita. ;’}
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