My roommate, God bless her soul maintains the unfortunate belief that fairytales exist, that prince charming is out there somewhere, and that all she has to do is bide her time until he comes along to rescue her. I always tell her that she has a Disney fairytale running on repeat in her head. She is an extremely poignant example of what happens when the ideologies of Disney Princess films are not prefaced with a disclaimer that these are fantasy worlds. Upon release of The Princess and the Frog my roommate was elated to say the least, before this time no black princess existed and she therefore somehow felt that this was a princess she would be able to identify with more than any other of Princess Tiana’s predecessors. Funnily enough I would assume that my roommate would identify more with princesses like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, the princesses that categorically lay in waiting for their prince to come and save them. Unfortunately for her, or else she marries a millionaire or an extremely successful person, her dream of staying at home with the children in a life of luxury is a fantasy that will not come true. Except for the obvious racial similarities, my roommate and Princess Tiana have nothing in common; my Princess Roommate has no career ambitions as such, instead her focus is to perfect her ability to carry out domestic duties in preparation for her marriage. The fact that she, at the age of twenty still fervently believes that prince charming exists and will find her eventually scares me, but the truth of the matter is she is not alone.
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