![]() ![]() ![]() "Pink is what girls want," is the official line. She attends toys trade shows to talk to the toys peddlers themselves. Yet the girls still know the plots and have their favorite princesses. Only costumes - for imagination/play sake. Orenstein talks to the moms of her daughter's classmates to find that they also have rules about princesses in their homes. So why is the princess phase such a challenge for moms today? If it's a phase, can't we just sit back and wait it out? In her new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Orenstein reveals why this phase isn't as innocent as the glitter makes it appear. ![]() It detailed the trials of being a middle school girl with such genius that if she was a mom at my daughter's school, I would have totally turned to her for guidance. Orenstein's book School Girls was pivotal in my growth as a young feminist. ![]() "How did you get through the princess stage?" That is in the top 5 questions I get asked by other moms, especially those I truly believe are turning to me as a feminist to guide them through the forest of pink.So it intrigued me to learn that even the famed Peggy Orenstein struggls with the princess phase. ![]()
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