The Princess Blog

I recently saw a fantastic YouTube video  analyzing the stigma that the title character from  Disney's 1950 Cinderella  is inherently weak despite enduring years of abuse and maintaining a strong survival instinct. It got me thinking about one of the most common criticisms people have toward princesses, which is that being a "Damsel in Distress" is a poor influence on girls. My issue with this is that it implies these characters somehow choose to put themselves in horrible situations in an attempt to be rescued by a prince. Why would anyone choose to be placed in such awful situations? They wouldn't. Just because many of the older princesses do find a way out of their unfortunate circumstances through the love of a prince ( which is no longer the case ) does not imply that they were the masterminds behind their own abuse. In fact, if they had intentionally put themselves in these situations, they would certainly have some extremely messed up psychological issues. ...

Did you know that yesterday was Don Bluth's 80th birthday? In case you're out of the loop, Don Bluth  is an animator who used to work for Disney until he teamed up with Gary Goldman and made a whole bunch of hit animated features on his own in the '80s and '90s. He is responsible for  Anastasia , one of my favorite animated princess movies of all time as well as  Thumbelina . To top things off, he created a cool animated game called Dragon's Lair that was in arcades and on laser disc. Despite his age, Don and Gary are still working hard to bring their fans great animation. They recently started  an Indiegogo campaign  to do a full-length animated feature film of Dragon's Lair . Don Bluth is very loyal to his fans and responds to nearly all animation-related inquiries on his website . In my opinion, Don Bluth's greatest masterpiece of all time was Anastasia  in 1997. The movie used state-of-the-art technology for the time period. I wasn't v...