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Bonfire Of Disney Princesses By Barbara Ehrenreich

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In her paper "Bonfire of Disney Princesses," Barbara Ehrenreich states how Disney princess are bad influence on children. Ehrenreich tries to convince her readers that Disney's marketing is bad. She than talk about how Disney brainwashes Young girls into believing what their role is towards society. For Example Cinderella portrays how all girls only job is to clean floors and be a servant, and wait around until their prince comes along and take them away in a carriage. Disney princess teaches young girls that intelligence means nothing and girls can't do anything without men. Ehrenreich then makes another powerful point by comparing Disney's princess as role models to Dora the Explorer, she writes, "For this their little girls gave up Dora,

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