{"id":2373,"date":"2017-11-11T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/11\/11\/is-cinderella-about-a-damsel-in-distress-or-a-hellacious-heroine\/"},"modified":"2017-11-11T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:33:09","slug":"is-cinderella-about-a-damsel-in-distress-or-a-hellacious-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/11\/11\/is-cinderella-about-a-damsel-in-distress-or-a-hellacious-heroine\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Cinderella&#8217; About a Damsel in Distress or a Hellacious Heroine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/11\/cinderella-about-damsel-distress-or-hellacious-heroine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/cinderelladrawing57.jpg?itok=I-LsyeLi\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWhat is Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Cinderella&#8221; really about?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIs <em>Cinderella <\/em>an anti-feminist tale? This is a question that has been asked countless times about the 1950 animated Disney film, as well as virtually every other Disney Princess picture since <em>Snow White, <\/em>because, unlike their male counterparts, female Disney characters appear to be passive, weak, and unresponsive toward challenges they face, opting instead to wait to be rescued by their Prince Charming.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBut this video essay from ScreenPrism argues that critics of the <em>Cinderella<\/em> may be unwittingly &#8220;blaming the victim&#8221; for her unmasculine response to familial abuse and neglect. &#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/11\/cinderella-about-damsel-distress-or-hellacious-heroine\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; What is Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Cinderella&#8221; really about?&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; Is Cinderella an anti-feminist tale? This is a question that has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Ch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}