Christensen Chapter 2

Wow.... did this hit home for me! Not only am I the ultimate Disney fan, I have just realized in my recent college years how degrading Disney films are!!

When I was child this was all I watched and to be honest I still indulge in my old Disney movies from time to time, to me their priceless, without all the analyzing. I had a different kind of childhood, so to watch these movies took me out of the my reality. Yes like most girls I did think that my prince charming would find me, sweep me off my feet, marry me and we would live happily ever after, but I think to a certain extent these movies sometimes gave girls hope. I'm not talking about those crazed people that only lived in the Disney fantasy, I'm talking about the girls that did want a prince charming, a prince charming that was well rounded that loved a girl for them and that was it, without all the glamor and shine.......

Now on the other hand.... I do agree with Christensen that we are influenced by the media, this is what we have grown to accept as what is real and what is not. These movies have taught some of us that step-mothers are evil, only the beautiful desperate women win the prince charming, and all villains are fat and ugly, but do we go over board with analyzing every single thing within cartoons, magazines, movies and the television? When do we, meaning ourself, figure out that "whoa, I'm looking way too deep into this," or "yea she might be skinny and pretty, but I'm thick and look fabulous" or "dang there aren't any women or people of color in that movie, but it was a good movie anyways" when are we do we stop being so analytically and taking something for just what it is, but still doing something about it to make a change... wheres the line, is the question I guess I'm asking?