All my life, the repetition of three words have created a continuous hum in the back of my mind: Happily Ever After.
With these three words, the Disney Fallacy was implanted into my heart and soul, and the hearts of souls of other impressionable, sing-a-long loving, children.
Happily Ever After.
With each Disney movie, the girl meets boy, despite even the most insurmountable obstacle, they ride off into the sunset, to live happily ever after.
Aladdin and Jasmine overcame Jafar, Ariel grew legs for the love of God, Belle fell in love with the BEAST who turned out to be a prince, and Cinderella, with her bevy of mice and her fairy god mother managed to score the prince.
In reality, a poor pocket-picker like Aladdin would never score a princess, a fish and a human would never work out, Belle could NEVER love a non-human beast, and even with a fairy god mother, chances are a prince would never want a floor-scrubbing girl whose only friends have four legs.
When as children we are fed an image of a technicolor future that is so impossibly idealistic, how could we possibly expect the real thing not to be a let down? Is there such a thing as happily ever after as Disney leads us to believe?
3 comments:
DOWN WITH DISNEY
Jelly, you are so eloquent. I love this post... and absolutely feel the same way. Happily ever after is so the my way of thinkng about everything... and what I have actually come to learn is that we have to believe in magic a little (to spark up our lives); but to leave our lives at the mercy of magic is actually pretty disastrous. So while we go out into the world finding magic, we also need to be a little pragmatic and allow magic to happen alongside practicality/ common sense. So no we won't be able to turn a blind eye to make magic happen when we are dating a beast!
Have you every considered the disney PHALLACY?
Disney is infamous for their sexism, not to mention harsh racism. Every disney fairy tale really diminishes the power of the woman and teaches little boys and girl that the woman is weak and the man must always save her. Women and girl will only be happy once they accept their weakness and allow for their prince charming to come save them. THEY NEVER SAVE THEMSELVES.
Look at Ariel, she wasn't fucking good enough with her tale so she had to grow legs to find love. So I wonder why so many little girls think they need to stop eating, get boob jobs, mutilate their bodies so they're desirable towards men.
Look at your post and the effect these ridiculous movies have had on you. As the hidden prophet said... DOWN WITH DISNEY. Get that fantasy out of your mind jelly it is not going to happen, not if you strive to be the smart, eloquent and successful career woman you say you want to be.
SAVE YOURSELF. DON'T WAIT FOR SOME RANDOM GUY TO SAVE YOU.
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