Analysis Of Escape From Wonderland: Disney And The Female Imagination By Deborah Ross

In “Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the Female Imagination” by Deborah Ross, she argues that the female imagination is being negatively impacted by the major children’s corporation known as Disney. Disney is the biggest children's entertainment company in the world and is mostly known for its fairytale stories such as Frozen, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin to name a few. After watching multiple Disney films, I resolved that Disney inhibits the female imagination in the way that they deem women will do anything for the love and/or attention of a man, oversexualize their princess characters, and overtly display the stereotypes of women have naive outlooks on life and are incapable of doing anything without the assistance of a man. One

Instead of bikini bra’s and bare tail-bottoms, costume designers were forced to make a dress that was appropriate for the viewer's age in the same color scheme as Ariel’s flashy getup. But what if instead of the dress, the costumes were exactly what Ariel was wearing. Would we want the toddlers of our society walking around in bralets and crotch revealing mermaid tails? Lastly, the message that the movie conveys is not a positive one for little girls to cherish such as education or accomplishing anything that one puts their mind to. It is a story of how a young girl disobeys her father, sells her soul to the movie’s representation of what is “evil”, and runs away from home all to marry a man who almost ends up in a marriage with someone else. Kids are highly impressionable during their younger years. So when they see their favorite princess Ariel wearing skimpy clothing and disobeying her father for the attention of boys, though we as a society may not think it impacts them, it does. Why do kids like to dress up like their favorite characters and wear the same or similar things