Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
      • Subscribe
      • Close
    • Close
  • In Season
    • Basketball
    • MMA
    • Running
    • Soccer
    • Close
  • Pro
  • Olympics
  • College
  • High School
  • Youth
  • Coaching
  • Business
  • Title IX
  • Entertainment
  • Inspiration

Women Talk Sports

News, Commentary, Features about Women in Sports

You are here: Home / SportsPLUS / OpEd / Brits get The Royal Wedding: We have a princess problem

April 28, 2011 By Fair Game News Leave a Comment

Brits get The Royal Wedding: We have a princess problem

By Katie Culver

Given the frenzy surrounding The Royal Wedding and future Princess Kate Middleton-Windsor (we feminists can only hope for the hyphenated name), it seems prudent to consider the implications of “princess mania.”

To mothers of 4-year-old girls (I am one of those), the term needs no explanation. To those needing a definition, it describes the overwhelming popularity of princess culture that bombarded our nation long before the Royal Engagement.

Now, I have thus far resisted, refusing to buy princess gear (as if it’s a sport!) or let my daughter watch Disney princess movies (am I so cruel?).

So while the airwaves will be filled with Brits parsing The Royal Wedding, I offer an alternative go-to source: Peggy Orenstein’s recent book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter. In it, she explains our society’s problematic obsession with princesses, particularly those with Disney lineage. She substantiates my hesitance to soak my daughter in “girly-girl culture.”

What did I learn from Orenstein that will get me through all the princess talk?

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr

Related

Filed Under: OpEd, Sexism, SportsPLUS

Speak up! Leave a Comment: Cancel reply

Social

  • View WomenTalkSports’s profile on Facebook
  • View @womentalksports’s profile on Twitter

Women’s Sports News

Women disguised as men sneak into Iranian football match

April 30, 2018 3:00 am

The Future Of The National Pro Fastpitch League Looks Difficult — And That Is Not Surprising

February 7, 2018 10:43 pm

Three-time Olympian Erin Hamlin to retire after PyeongChang

February 6, 2018 5:38 pm

Smithsonian: A Brief History of Womens Figure Skating

February 6, 2018 5:34 pm

Pat Lamb, coach and champion of women’s sports at Carleton, dies at 83

February 5, 2018 9:48 pm

What’s Popular:

  • Things are (finals)-ally beginning to slow down
    Things are (finals)-ally beginning to slow down

Recent Posts

  • Things are (finals)-ally beginning to slow down
  • Jessica Mendoza’s new book “No Base Like Home” Makes a Great Holiday Gift
  • Women’s Empowerment: How to Invest in Your Career Development
  • As We Begin Week Five of WBB NCAA season………….
  • Scramble at the top of the NEC standings, but defending champs Saint Francis U and preseason favorite Robert Morris are struggling
Pretty Tough
TwitterFacebookLinkedinYoutubegoogleplus

Home · Legal · Contact · Copyright Women Talk Sports, LLC© 2019 · Log in

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.