Do Little Girls Still Care About Disney Princesses?
The release Disney’s ‘The Princess and the Frog’ has sparked a hailstorm of chatter in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere over the fact that the movie features the first black princess. But the critics and commentators may be ignoring a bigger story: Are Disney Princesses still as popular as they’ve been in the past, or has the storied tradition began to fade — and will sales of backpacks, princess costumes and movie tickets drop in favor of an entirely new fad … like, say, ‘Hannah Montana’? In an informal poll that I took, the results were mixed. Julia, age 6, from Long Island is over princesses, but Naomi, also 6, from Florida, still loves princesses and looks forward to wearing her princess costume when she goes to Disney World. Oona, age 3, from Massachusetts, doesn’t watch the Disney movies and owns no princesses paraphernalia. Despite her parents’ efforts to shield her from the mass marketing, she sometimes tells her mother, “I am a Princess!” Meanwhile, the past fe
