Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us.

Christensen has so many great things to say and a lot of things that I have never thought about until reading her point of view and what she says.

• “Kenneth noticed that people of color and poor people are either absent or servants to the rich, white, pretty people.”

The youtube video that I posted (if you click on the word servants) is from the movie Fantasia. The character's name is Sunflower. Sunflowers features are all distorted and made bigger. This is just not right, and it doesn't teach anything to kids other then cruilaty. If you have ever seen the movie they also have characters that are blue and pink as well as other colors but when they are "falling in love" it is always with the same color and not any of the other ones.

• "Happiness means getting a man and transformation from wretched conditions can be achieved through consumption--in [Cinderella's] case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle."

It shows girls that if they aren't spitting image of beautiful then they will not have a great life. Until Cinderella was visited by her fairy godmother she was leading an ordinary life. As soon as she was "transformed" she got a Prince and everything should could have dreamed of. I think that this teaches kids that it doesn't matter what is on the inside but the out. I don't think that it could send a worse message, you need to not judge a book by its cover and what is inside of a person makes them who they are not what they look like.

• "Women who aren't white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess."

If you just take a look at this picture you can see what this quote says. Although Princess Jasmine is not white, you can see that her skin is just a few shades darker then the other princesses which wouldn't be the real case if she were Indian or whatever her background is. All the princess characters always look so beautiful; perfect hair, make-up, skin, clothes. It shows a false sense of what the world is like when little kids are young. I mean don't get me wrong I think that "fairytale" like these stories are important, I would have been the first one to dress up like Cinderella when I was little. Although, are we putting too many false hopes into our kids lives. This also makes me think about the show Ugly Betty. If you have ever seen it Betty is this ordinary, plain looking Mexican girl. She has braces and not a great sense of fashion and she works for a fashion magazine. Every other person except for one main lady, are white. They are all very beautiful and done up. You can see what some of this things that Christensen talks about are not just in the shows our kids watch but everywhere.