I’ve had a long time disliking for Snow White ever since I was little and it’s something that has carried over into adulthood. I grew up watching Disney movies, especially the princess ones, and majority of them I still watch today (even the newer ones I like such as Princess & The Frog and Tangled!) but Snow White has been the only one I don’t like. I decided to draw out the princesses on my iPad, all stick figure like because drawing with my finger takes a while

This is Snow White, stick figure aside she is portrayed as this beautiful girl in the movie. Which is fine, I thought she was pretty. I loved her dress and I LOVED the Seven Dwarfs even the movie as well. In my childhood I think I hated her voice the most, it was very high pitched and rather annoying. It’s something that still bothers me to this day. But also in the movie I noticed she does nothing! She cooks and cleans for the dwarfs and then eats a poisoned apple after they tell her not to open the door to a stranger. She does nothing heroic, nothing really for herself, and nothing noteworthy. She doesn’t overcome anything, she has a prince do it for her. She falls into a deep sleep after eating the apple and is asleep. At least he was a cute prince I guess. To this day, 20 years later I still CAN NOT watch the movie Snow White without getting annoyed by her voice or by something else she does. But, there are some princesses I do like!

The princesses above are Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and Belle from Beauty and the Beast (in case you can’t tell from my horrible stick figure drawings). These are only 3 from a long list of Disney princess that I adore (Jasmine, Aurora, and many more). Now when I was little and I wasn’t pretending to be running from dinosaurs from Jurassic Park I was pretending I was a mermaid. The Little Mermaid was the first movie I saw in theaters and I still LOVE it to this day. Of course Ariel does stupid things too, she’s 16 and runs away from home after doing the whole “love at first sight” with Prince Eric (I watched this movie last week). But she tries to save Eric from Ursula and her father helps too and yada yada. She’s not that much of a damsel in distress, a little dumb yes with her decisions but still. Cinderella also overcame her wicked Stepmother and evil Stepsisters and in the end got her Prince. Even with all the hardship in her life she still sang a song and kept a smile on her face and in the end she got her Prince too. Belle from Beauty and the Beast is also a big favorite of mine. First off, she LOVES to read which her town thinks is weird. She has Gaston always going after her but she stands up for herself. She sacrifices her own life and freedom to save her father and in the end gets her prince too.

I do realize disliking a fictional character is probably weird, but Snow White is just one of those movies I still refuse to watch. Of course if I have a little girl when I have kids she can watch any Disney movie she wants, but Snow White may be the one I’ll have my husband watch with her

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