{"id":2784,"date":"2008-09-20T23:35:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2017-09-16T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T21:11:46","slug":"run-away-from-disney-run-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/20\/run-away-from-disney-run-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s Infantilization of Adult Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first I thought this ad (found at <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5052066\/the-road-to-happily-ever-after-starts-with-me-disneys-princess-half-marathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jezebel<\/a>) creeped me out because of the equation: Disney princess + girl power. But then I remembered that that&#8217;s pretty much been the whole Disney princess gimmick since, oh, Sleeping Beauty or so. Then it hit me. It&#8217;s the infantilization.\u00a0 Disney princess + adult woman = shivers up my spine.\u00a0 Is it just me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/picture1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2785 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"711\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I learned a long time ago that a true princess makes her own happy ending.\u00a0 So I train.\u00a0 I sweat.\u00a0 I succeed.\u00a0 That&#8217;s my fairytale. A nd with a new Disney half marathon celebrating women, it makes my commitment worth it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just a race&#8230; it&#8217;s a reflection of me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyworldsports.disney.go.com\/dwws\/en_US\/marathon\/listing?name=DisneyPrincessMarathonEventListingPage&amp;CMP=OTC-VanURLPrincessHalfMara08&amp;bhcp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney Princess Half Marathon website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Inaugural 2009 Disney\u2019s Princess Half Marathon Weekend will bring women of all ages together to participate in a magical event designed just for them. The Disney Princesses are the inspiration for the weekend\u2019s events and will focus on the attributes every princess possesses: commitment, courage, determination, fantasy, perseverance, and strength. Every woman is a princess, which princess are you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first I thought this ad (found at Jezebel) creeped me out because of the equation: Disney princess + girl power. But then I remembered that that&#8217;s pretty much been the whole Disney princess gimmick since, oh, Sleeping Beauty or so. Then it hit me. It&#8217;s the infantilization.\u00a0 Disney princess + adult woman = shivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2096,108],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70799,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/70799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}