This week's readings were so interesting and so true!!! Don't even get me started, the Disney princess stereotype is pathetic! 90% of them are all white, skinny, vulnerable, and dependent on a man (cinderella, snow white, sleeping beauty, belle) and only recently have we seen a different race with princess Jasmine. Slightly off topic, I was watching TV last night and there was a commercial for DKNY watches and it showed a stunning woman rushing from her taxi cab and a sexy-looking man rushing from his own car. It appears that they are going to meet each other other, but then they ran past each other into the arms of a sexy man and woman. They then show the two women, obviously a homosexual couple, embracing, and the men holding hands if I remember correctly. The whole point of the ad was to say that with a DKNY watch, you won't be late for your date with that "someone special." But it was TOTALLY geared to the gay and lesbian community!! I thought this was relevant since we have been discussing this lately in class. Back to the Disney princesses and commercializing race, I think it's pathetic that Disney has so many stereotypical depictions of their female princesses. Even further, the Mickey Mouse Monopoly has dominated this industry making it virtually impossible to insert any other race depictions or representations. As a result, I think this is totally teaching our children only one dimension of a bigger picture. Little kids are taught to think that only pretty white girls can be princesses.