Comments on: Disney’s Infantilization of Adult Women

By: mixbyhand

mixbyhand — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:47:00 +0000

i think you missed muriel’s point. of course there are women of color who have both the resources to get to disney and an interest in distance running. doesn’t that beg the question – WHY AREN”T THEY PICTURED TOO!?

By: Popanator

Popanator — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:47:00 +0000

I love to eat disney princess fruit snacks. It makes me feel like a princess!

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:43:11 +0000

If you can believe you can do it, (fantasizing), then it will happen, but you have to work toward your goal. It has nothing to do with laziness.

By: amanda

amanda — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:18:56 +0000

Only because the pics are of white women? Is that your stance? I think that comments like yours breed stereotypes, and we will never get over this issue if all we are looking for is skin color or lack of skin color. I find it hard to believe that there are no black women successful enough to afford a ticket to disney! I am white, and not rich, I cannot afford a ticket to Disney to run a marathon. But if I wanted to and it was important to me, I would save, so that next year I could make it to Disney!
Don’t be defeated by an ad, it’s a piece of paper, and we are all so much more important than the color of our skin. If you want to participate in a princess 5K or something, be proactive, head up one of your own in your community. Bring your community together and bring the marathon home! You are capable!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:34:33 +0000

Fantasy is apparently one of a princess’s best traits? Okay then. I’m a princess because I fantasize about winning a race, even if I’m never going to enter. Out of sheer laziness.

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By: DanAfleck

DanAfleck — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:57:09 +0000

I have no problem with Disney celebrating women, or even equating women with princesses. But I do have a bone to pick with the very last line of the website blurb-

“Every woman is a princess. Which princess are you?”

As in, we have to pick one of the pre-made Disney princesses to be? A woman can’t keep her own individual attributes and still be a princess? That’s not okay with me.

By: MRK

MRK — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:34:54 +0000

A half marathon is a defined race length. Plenty of people race halves in the process of building to a full – or maybe just stick with a half. So, running a half marathon can be a matter of preference, a matter of logistics, or a matter of sexism. But Occam’s Razor suggests the last is unlikely.

And unfortunately, it has been my experience that in the United States at least, outside of the most elite races, that running is a relatively wealthy, relatively white sport. Which is too bad – it’s the cheapest sport to get into.

By: lgreen

lgreen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:24:33 +0000

I don’t think the Princess brand hasn’t been around long enough to evoke nostalgia. Also, is it weird that Disney is re-defining the word “princess”? The attributes they list aren’t the attributes of either actual princesses (as in member of a royal family) or people who have been called “princesses”, sort of insultingly, in the past (pampered/spoiled girls or women). They’re not even the attributes of the girls in the cartoons, who mostly just sat around until stuff happened to them.

By: eallen

eallen — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:47:46 +0000

So is the event just “celebrating women” in general, or does the money go to a particular philanthropic cause? I wonder too why it’s a half marathon, rather than a 5K or 10K. Saying it’s “half” of a marathon makes me think that the manly distance of a full marathon was halved because the poor weak women can’t handle a full marathon. Calling the race by a length of 5 or 10 or 15K doesn’t have the same “less than” association.

By: Muriel Minnie Mae

Muriel Minnie Mae — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:43:03 +0000

Women of color need not participate it seems. This event appears to be targeted toward white women. And white women who can afford to fly to Disney to run a 1/2 marathon. Think food and accommodations are included?

By: mordicai

mordicai — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:56:00 +0000

I gotta say– I think this one is just you. Evoking nostalgia does not infantilization make.