Papri: Are Characters Like Cinderella Promoting Unhealthy Body Image?

    • Papri Das, Standard: XII-B, B.D.M. International, Kolkata.
    • Publish Date: Jan 8 2020 2:21PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 8 2020 3:02PM
Papri: Are Characters Like Cinderella Promoting Unhealthy Body Image?
A still from Cinderella (1950 film)

This world has set some pre-defined standards of beauty for women which every women starts running after from a very young age. Fai, slim, beautiful, fragile, naive, soft spoken, submissive and many more. I easily connect these traits with the Walt Disney characters all of us irrespective of our sexes have enjoyed as children.

I would like to take the easy examples of Cinderella and Snow White. Cinderella who was a beautiful young girl met her Prince Charming in the ball. Charming ditched all the women who came being wooed by Cinderella's ethereal, more accurately unrealistic beauty.

Snow White got her Prince Florian also for her inexplicable beauty. Needless to mention the famous monologue from Snow white "Mirror mirror of the wall who is the fairest of them all?" Kids after watching this have the general tendancy of trying and keeping a long hair and catcalling any other girl of the class who has short hair. From trying makeup at a very young age, eating less at home to be slim and trying to impersonate everything as the princesses, the simplicity of childhood dies at a very early age.

There is always a tendancy to look perfect and dressing us as the adults. Parents and teachers thus should educate and enlighten the children about the reality of the reel world and ask them to feel comfortable in their own skin and compliment them for who they are always!


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Mythili Iyer Greenwood High

Yes, Cinderella and other princesses present young girls unrealistic body types and a poor body image of themselves. Gender stereotyping fueled by such characters, doesn''t let girls to do things considered ''unladylike''. I myself grappled with this issue when I was younger and I make sure that my younger sister also doesn''t fall into this trap.

Mahak Goyal SALWAN PUBLIC SCHOOL(RAJINDER NAGAR

As a kid, I was a fan of these movies but it did not have such a negative impact on my mindset. So even though this take on the mesmerizing fairy tales is truly correct, I''d still like to believe the the child''s mindset is also an important factor when we decide on such questions.

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