Disney Princess Debate

I posted this on Facebook .....

Okay - so this has been bouncing around in my brain. Yesterday I posted this and one of my friends commented that Mulan wasn't a Princess... and she wasn't, and my friend is completely right. She didn't even marry a Prince. And I started to think... Cinderella wasn't a Princess ... Belle wasn't a Princess.... Rapunzel wasn't a Princess ... and several other girls, they had to marry Princes in order to become "Princesses" .... Mulan was the first movie that showed a very strong woman who didn't NEED a man for her happiness, she was doing what she was doing for the love of her Father, she happened to meet a man, but it wasn't her focus. Although I could make pretty good arguments for a few others (like Belle for instance who never bowed from being exactly true to herself, she sacrificed herself to save her Father, and ended up saving the Beast in the end, plus she's my favorite.) ... I think a lot of the Princesses are strong women in their own ways, A LOT of them don't focus on the "lets marry a man I just met" ... or marry the Prince... but Mulan was the first movie to really push the STRONG woman aspect, however all the Princesses exhibit strength, Ariel saves Eric when his ship wrecked,  Megaera sacrificed herself for Hercules. Or how Lilo gave Stitch a family. Or how Angel in the lady and the tramp 2 teaches Scamp everything he knows to be a junkyard dog.  Merida saved her mother from her father trying to kill her, Or how Rapunzel saved Flynn from death, Pocahontas saves John Smith when he was about to be executed for a crime he did not commit, Tiana saved Navene from the voodoo guy

I think the point of the statement being made about Frozen is the fact that it's the first Princess movie where the story didn't revolve around a MAN or a PRINCE, because Mulan did fall in love - even though the story didn't revolve around HIM ....And with Frozen, it didn't revolve around a man at all, it was about the bond between SISTERS. 

Most of these stories are fairy tales. Mulan however, was based on folklore .... talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years ... she could have been a real person. Not saying she was .... but the possibility is there. 

Just sayin.... .... sincerely she who would rather debate Disney Princesses and won't debate politics ....