Comment 4- Princesses evolving

  It's great to see how princesses evolve over time and even in real life. Formerly, if the king and the queen had a boy, he would be the heir even if he had an elder sister, as  it happened with the current king of Spain Felipe VI. However, he himself said that his daughter Leonor would be his heir even though his second daughter were a boy.

In old Disney films, we can see many situations that today would be very strange to us, especially with princesses. According to Disney, women have to cook, clean, take care of men, and wait for their loved one. This is not real, and it´s chauvinism. Cinderella is a maid; Snowhite tells the dwarfs that she can cook, clean, sweep so that they accept her, and Ariel renounces to her voice and changes completely her body for a man.

We used to watch these movies without realizing everything that was happening in them. Seeing this, and normalizing it in boys and especially girls, it is a big problem since they assume that a prince will save them from any situation and that all they have to do is clean and cook. A girl, princess or not, can do anything without the help of any prince.

Fortunately, we can see a big change with the new Disney films in which the representation of an independent and courageous woman is more shown. For example, Mulan, Moana, Tangled, Brave, Frozen... Without a doubt, my favourite princess is Rapunzel, a determined and brave woman who is able of saving herself. All these movies are more modern than the previous ones. This shows how the world is evolving, although we still have a lot to do.