Were the first three Disney Princesses pushovers?

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Originally Posted by PhysicalMediaMaestro

It's the year 2025, and lots of people are celebrating the 75th anniversary of Disney's 1950 animated classic "Cinderella".

But not everyone. In fact, there are some people who see not only Cinderella as weak, but Snow White and Princess Aurora from "Sleeping Beauty" as well. They see the first three Disney Princesses as bad role models because they see them as weak.

Different people have different definitions of strength/courage. There are people who define strength/courage as putting yourself in danger to save someone else. There are people who define strength/courage as going somewhere no one else has gone before. There are people who define strength/courage as pushing yourself outside your comfort zone.

But those who see Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora as pushovers have a problematic definition of strength/courage. They define strength/courage as "standing up for yourself and not taking other people's abuse/mistreatment/unfairness." There are three big problems with this definition:

1. A lot of people with a sense of entitlement and/or very little life experience see unfairness where it doesn't exist.
2. In the process of standing up for themselves, they might do things much worse than anything their abusers ever did to them, including murder or terrorism.
3. Worst of all, innocent bystanders who had no hand in the perceived abuse/mistreatment/unfairness get caught in the crossfire.

So what do you think? Are the first three Disney Princesses (Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora) strong or weak? Please let me know, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

I don't think any of them are inherently weak or inferior...but you're certainly right about accepted norms being completely out of whack nowadays. For every animated version of Ariel, Belle, or Mulan, there's recently been a live-action portrayal that's the complete opposite in so many ways - it's truly sad.