With both irony and triumph, clever storytelling and genuine feeling, Disney is bringing us a new kind of fairy tale. As much love, fondness, and respect as I have for Disney, the company's name is still the one we most commonly associate with the age-old misconception that a princess is usually in need of rescuing. In the traditional story of Sleeping Beauty, this "heroine" sleeps through the majority of her own fairy tale. Almost a literal demonstration of the concept in critical theory of the female as the object of the male gaze - the princess lies unconscious, her person-hood negated, while the admiring prince looks on and, eventually, is the catalyst to her awakening.
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