Strangely, I was able to do it pretty easily. To keep with the tide analogy, dikes are built one brick at a time to eventually keep the tide back. No matter how good of a parent you may be in teaching your daughter about proper role models, independence, etc., ultimately you will find yourself in a tug-o-war against an entire cultural zeitgeist, which honestly is nigh impossible to oivercome directly instead it must be eroded and changed so as to better conform to your parental desires (because the current culture is largely informed by the parental desires of a pre-women's lib movement, which generall encouraged domesticity). I think you're absolutely right in every aspect of the above statement, with one exception:Ī parent trying to counterbalance the entirety of media in today's age is akin to trying to use your hands to push back the tide. Nothing Disney nor any other company does or does not do is going to change poor parenting. If you allow the 'be pretty for pretty's sake' to be the message your kid gets, that is on you. She is to marry one of the princes of the other three clans in order keep the peace among the four clans. The gist of the film is that it is time for Merida to get married. I guess I just don't see it as Disney's (or any other company's) job to raise my kids and can't find much empathy for folks who do. I saw the film on Friday and instead of rehashing how Brave reinforces gender stereotypes, I am going to focus on the marriage in the film. CptJake wrote:It sounds like the real issue is parents not being parents.
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