Disney and Gender Roles Mar. 2014 | Page 7

THE RESULTS

Little girl's face during the interview... and probably yours after going through this magazine.

1, 3, 4 and 5. The most popular princess among the interviewed girls was undoubtedly Elsa from the latest Disney film Frozen (5 girls). The other answers were Ariel from Little Mermaid, Mulan, and Merida from Brave. Besides Ariel, all the princesses feature strenght, independence, and some kind of ability or superpower. So that's a good thing, girls value strength, power, and physical skils. All of these movies were released after, 1990, so It seems that the depiction of princesses lhas changed over the past 20 years. The girls could identify the significant differences between the main characters in Mulan,and Frozen which had motives related to the bound between family, as opposed to films such as Little Mermaid and Snow White which main characters were dirven by "love at first sight".

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2. Most of the girls responded that to become a woman you have to get married and learn to nurture a child. Although that's not exactly a bad thing, it seems that the movies have implanted an idea that marriage is something fundamental and that a woman's duty is to be a good caregiver.

We concluded the girls interviewed were most attracted to princesses who were strong, posessed some kind of skill, or were "cool".