In Defense of Disney: The Final Chapter

As the title indicates, this is the last installment in my In Defense of Disney Series. All the other essays can be read by clicking on the 'in defense of disney' tag, and I hope everyone has enjoyed reading them!


Character: Jasmine, from Aladdin

Criticism: “This princess must get married to satisfy the requirements of the law. Her reluctance to do so causes her powerful father no end of trouble. She is enslaved by a powerful man and is only saved by the wit of a street rat.”

( Cut for length and TW for enslavement (is that a trigger? I'm not sure, so I'm warning for it) )

Next up: I'm considering a passionate treatise on how much I fucking love The Princess and the Frog, but I'm not really sure I will. Tiana is a beautiful example of a more modern Disney princess/heroine, but I don't have the experience necessary to discuss the race issue in any detail, and it might be doing everyone a disservice to leave it out. On the other hand, I love Tiana, and as the movie makes her race a non-issue, perhaps I could too. I'm torn.