How do you handle 'Sleeping Beauty' and other fairy tales with young girls?

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Last night, I was watching the new Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition DVD, and thinking about how beautiful the film looks restored (watch a clip below), how wonderful it is that the extras give individual animators their due, and... [link]

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Published 10/7/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
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The Princess Diaries: Can Little Girls Handle Disney? [Scary Tales]
Published 10/9/2008 by Sadie at Jezebel
[image] Yesterday on EW 's Popwatch blog, Mandi Bierley pondered watching Sleeping Beauty , with her soon-to-be niece, realizing there are worrisome things in it. “The first gift the good fairies bestow upon the baby Princess Aurora is beauty, and she is engaged at 16,” she writes, adding, “Seriously, what do you do?” Obviously I know what these fears are grounded on: societal pressures, subliminal messages, traditional gender expectations. And to ...

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