Eighth Blogpost

The source is called “The Disney Influence on Kindergarten girls” by Tanawan Asawarachan. This source is on an article by Asawarachan about an experiment she did using kindergarten age girls to see if Disney Princess movies had any effect on how the girls viewed themselves. The results of this is after seeing the films eighty percent of the girls felt that they were fat, while thirty six percent of the girls felt that they were too slim. Next the girls were interviewed, and asked questions about how they felt about their bodies. Most of the girls said that they were too fat, or their friends had called them fat. One of the little girls responses that I felt was particularly upsetting was one little girl named June who said, “I want to lose weight. My friend told me I can be a princess if I am slimmer because Cinderella is slim and beautiful. I want to be a beautiful girl so I cannot be a fat girl.” She felt that in order to be a princess like Cinderella that she needed to be smaller. A little girl felt that she had to lose weight in order to be beautiful, from that young age little girls are already feeling that they have to be thin in order to be pretty. I feel like this source is very important to my research paper because it only supports even more that Disney princesses are not helping young girls with their self-views, its harming them. These are the same little girls who later on may develop eating disorders because the princess that they idolized as a little girl was unnaturally slim.