{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"20142103","dateCreated":"1266018493","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"TarynPascua","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/TarynPascua","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1264492619\/TarynPascua-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20142103"},"dateDigested":1532140166,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"2 shells + a piece of string","description":"I love to read about Disney princesses because I love Disney and I love princesses: a perfect combonation. I found this article very eye-opening. I never really thought about the princesses until it was brought to my attention. They all have ridiculously tiny waists! And Arie?! I mean, come on! Sh'es not even wearing clothes! Just 2 shells and a piece of sting! Maybe it was the trend of that particular decade, but even if it was, girlsd shouldn't be dressing like that if young kids are going to watch it. Furthermore, it's unfair to always portray the females as helpless. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty need a man to save them. Jasmine and Ariel attempt to relinquish their royal title for a man. And except for Jasmine, All the other princesses are white. The pro-girl characters such as Pocahontas, Mulan, and Tiana are all women of color. Interesting, huh?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20141943","dateCreated":"1266018188","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"brittzbarnes","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/brittzbarnes","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20141943"},"dateDigested":1532140166,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Disney Princesses","description":"I thought that this article was quite humorous. Well at least the tone in which it was written made my giggle a bit.
\nI found the experiments that were created to judge the influence that cartoons have on a little girl, interesting.
\nAfter reading this article and learning that the children most affected by the appearance of Disney princesses are little girls around the ages of 5 and 6, I began to question if there was an approximate age that children become most influenced by the things they see or watch on television.
\nIf 3 to 4 year olds are not greatly affected by the cartoons they watch, then what makes them think of the specific images of the "typical princess?"
\nI question whether or not the things that they are influenced by are being taught or does a certain image of what the perfect person looks like developed over time.
\nThere are many things that I have picked up on in this article that has raised questions about the actual development of the way a child thinks.
\nIt disturbs me that the Disney Princesses, whom I\u2019ve looked up to for so many years, can have such a negative affect on the way a child thinks about themselves. It disturbs me to think that they have affected the minds of little girls, corrupting them into believe that in order to be a princess, they need to look a particular way.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20128059","dateCreated":"1265998167","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"bchun3","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bchun3","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20128059"},"dateDigested":1532140166,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Disney Princess","description":"I think Disney should alter the appearance of their princesses because they obviously have an impact on little girls. And those little girls will grow up wanting to be like a Disney Princess. Unless the images in the media change, we won't be able to escape from the stereotypes because as long as the image is there, people will continue to compare themselves to the image. I'm not sure where the "skinny is pretty" idea originated from. Somewhere within the last 200 years, people decided the beautiful women were not fat but skinny and unhealthy looking. As a child, I don't remember how I was impacted by the Disney Princess. I know that Snow White pissed me off because her singing was very annoying. But I think I liked Cinderella because she got to clean and she made it look fun. Like the author of the article, I think Mulan is a good role model for all little girls because she's strong since she stands up for her own rights and tries to do what's best. However, if women are still concerned with her body image, it's because she's asian and as a biological stereotype, asians are skinny.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20125203","dateCreated":"1265994378","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"Laurel_Higa","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Laurel_Higa","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1264054493\/Laurel_Higa-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20125203"},"dateDigested":1532140166,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"I love love love Pocahontas!!!","description":"Okay so this is my only time to say how much I love Pocahontas and how I admired her since I was a child. I dressed up as her twice for halloween. Once when I was five and this past year. I always admired her for her attitude and actions, not her beauty. Of course I have always thought I looked like her because I had long, brown hair, tan skin, and ran around bare foot everywhere. She is such a strong role model and her determination and passion for John shows her independence and will to fulfill her dreams. I never thought of Pocahontas as a disney princess because she was not dressed up in a pretty dress, had fancy hair style, or lived in a nice place. She was all natural and that is what caught my eye. Her free spirit inspired me to run free in my neighborhood, follow the rules, but at the same time fight for what I want. I think that it is nice to watch disney movies as a child, but little boys and girls get too caught up in that fantasy life that they want to make it their own. It is impossible for them to carry out that life and the way they fill in that gap is by dressing up, acting like a "brat", and trying to live the high life that the characters do. I think that disney movies should have more life lessons and realistic. It is not fair to provide young girls with an image that they cannot fulfill. Media has always been a huge influence on people and becuase people do look at it for guidance, there should be some positive and realistic imaging to lead our young girls and boys in the right direction.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20112811","dateCreated":"1265972698","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"lauren.makishima","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lauren.makishima","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20112811"},"dateDigested":1532140166,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Mulan & Pocahontas","description":"I thought that this article was very interesting since I also idolized the Disney princesses as a child. I found the author\u2019s contempt for the traditional princesses and support for Mulan interesting. While the author said that she never found a Mulan costume, I was Mulan for Halloween one year. The year before that, I dressed up as Pocahontas. Though I still enjoyed Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc., I preferred Mulan and Pocahontas to the traditional princesses. While Mulan and Pocahontas are both very thin, I think that both of these characters exude an image of strength rather than helplessness. I thought that the study which was summarized in the article was also fascinating. I think that, as children get older, they see and experience more forms of media and are therefore taught that skinny is pretty. The skinny is pretty idea could possibly be attributed to the world of fashion. Twiggy, the enormously popular British model of the 1960s and 1970s, was, as her name suggests, one of the first super thin models. I believe that the idea of waist size as a measurement of beauty may have trickled down through the media from the runways of high fashion to the ideals of normal women.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20112061","dateCreated":"1265965871","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"kananih92","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kananih92","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20112061"},"dateDigested":1532140166,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"I prefer Mulan or Jasmine","description":"When I was a little girl, I absolutely ADORED Disney princesses. I had my own wooden trunk filled to the brim with costumes and matching accessories for every princess you could possibly think of. However, the one outfit I did not posses which relates to the article is a Mulan costume. As a child, Mulan was always my favorite character, and yet i found the most pleasure by dressing up as Jasmine from Aladdin. Maybe I unconciously preferred the personality of Mulan, but was more drawn to the image of Jasmine...I guess we'll never know because I can't really remember. Anyways, I don't necessarily agree with the article, but that is just my own opinion. I don't recall ever once thinking about pursuing their specific body image, but rather I was more interested in pursuing the carrer of living as a princess and one day falling in love. It is true that the women in the movies are portrayed with small waists and big breasts, but if you hadn't read the article, would you have really noticed or even cared? Everyone in their life at somepoint wishes to be a princess and I believe that this specific media source focuses more on oursuing your dreams rather than trying to achieve the perfect or not so perfect body image.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20111397","dateCreated":"1265963217","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"mahayash","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mahayash","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20111397"},"dateDigested":1532140167,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Disney Princesses <3","description":"I strongly disagree that Disney princesses have a big influence on younger girls. When I was younger I loved watching Disney movies, and the thought of being like them (skinny and pretty) has never crossed my mind. Don\u2019t most girls want to be a princess? But that doesn\u2019t mean that girls want to have the exact same appearance. The princesses are not princesses because they are skinny. They were either always in royal bloodline or became a princess after marrying a prince. I never realized how skinny they were until I saw the picture of Ariel on the article. I personally think that the young girls just want to be a princess and not exactly have the body type of the princesses. I think the lady who wrote the article is very paranoid of the media, and the daughters won\u2019t be affected as she worries. The only reason Snow White did the seven dwarves\u2019 laundry, or Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty\u2019s meekness is based on the time period and not stereotyping women in general. I am actually surprised at how people can twist such children\u2019s fairytales into something that supports their own agenda. I simply disagree with this article on Disney Princesses.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20111285","dateCreated":"1265962539","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"KatherineLum","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KatherineLum","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20111285"},"dateDigested":1532140167,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Disney Princesses and their Bodies","description":" This is another example of how the media has affected us, even as youth. I agree with the writer about Mulan, because Mulan is \u201cpowerful [and] independent.\u201d She does so much for the honor of her family and the love of her father. Although I do agree with her on other points as well, I thought that the author could have been excessively hard on Disney and its princesses. Disney is not only for the girly-girl, because it shows young girls several good morals despite several not so good ideas of women and body image. For example, these princesses show that through hard work one can get a happy ending like in Cinderella. I felt that the author also could have used more specific evidence to support her claims that Disney\u2019s princesses are for the girly-girl and influence girls in negative ways.
\nWhile I was reading the article, it did make me think about how I was possibly influenced by these princesses as a child. When I was watching these movies at ages four or five, I do not think that I would have changed my appearances based on the Disney princesses, because it never would have occurred to me that princesses were only of this specific body type.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20111023","dateCreated":"1265961602","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"MaureenBarrientos","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/MaureenBarrientos","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20111023"},"dateDigested":1532140167,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Mulan All the Way!","description":"GO MULAN! Disney warrior Mulan has been my favorite female character since the day I saw the movie in theaters. Mulan is a true role model for little girls. Mulan radiates female power by fighting for the things she believes in and proves that girls can do anything men can do. What I found interesting about this article was how the two age groups perceived beauty differently. \u201cThe 5- and 6-year-olds consistently chose significantly thinner women as the \u201creal\u201d princess than did the 3- and 4-year-olds\u201d I believe the reason for these results is that older girls are exposed to more media than younger girls. Girls for 4-5 already have their own friends with whom they have conversations with, watch more TV, and probably have a higher maturity to understand what appeals to the male race\u2014sex appeal. Three-year-old girls are still na\u00efve and aren\u2019t as interested in society as they are with their own simple little world. I hope Disney will produce more movies with strong, able women minus the tiny waists and skimpy wardrobe","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"20110975","dateCreated":"1265961380","smartDate":"Feb 11, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"KaylaNip","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KaylaNip","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/iolaniwomenlit.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/20110975"},"dateDigested":1532140167,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"I love Little Mermaid!","description":"Disney princesses were my absolute favorites growing up, Little Mermaid in particular. I thought that they were very animated and bubbly and I wanted to emulate them. I'm not sure that I looked at their physiques because as a kid, I was actually underweight and had to drink ensure to bulk up. But because of their gracefulness and lightness with each step, I definately looked up to them and wanted to move with dexterity like them. Imagewise, I noticed their big curious eyes and remember telling my mom thank yu for making my eyes double. Eek! I was already stereotyping! I think that the reason why little girls are so intrigued by Disney Princesses is because just the idea of being a princess is something so fascinating and attention drawing and attention is what little drama girls seek. Being a princess is definately out of the ordinary and I think that girls understand this and they want to be treated specially too and have adventures and experiences too. With so much admiration and respect, it is easy to see how much these characters have an effect on their audiences. The girls will then associate that same level of awe to correlate with their apearances.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}