Do girls favor the Disney princess they most phyically resemble?

I remember when I was a little girl and the only princesses were blonde and red haired (who gave a flip about Snow White anyways?). When I'd play with my best friend at the time (who was blonde) I always had to play the prince or antagonist because she was the one who resembled Aurora and Cinderella (and even crimson haired Ariel). Even when reenacting The Little Mermaid I had to be the prince. I remember being completely psyched the first time I saw Beauty and the Beast and brunette haired heroine Belle. It quickly usurped the Little Mermaid as my favorite.

Every little girl I've met who has seen all the Disney movies favors the princess she most physically resembles.

I, being a brunette, favored Belle. My bossy playmate's favorite was Aurora, two Alaskan natives I knew favored Pocohantas and Mulan, my blonde short haired cousin's favorite was Cinderella, my red headed best friend favored... guess who?

I loved all the princesses (except Snow White). But I always felt a really special bond with Belle, who I also resembled in my bookishness.

Has anyone else noticed the same pattern in either themselves or someone they know?

Well for me, personally, I never much cared for any of the princesses as I found their movies to be quite boring overall (I don't really considered Beauty and the Beast to be a princess movie, because Belle would then be the only one who wasn't a princess before getting married. Oh, and Mulan).

However, my little brother loved Snow White and he obviously looked nothing like her XD

But those are exceptions. It's not even just with Disney movies, kids (and even adults) are automatically drawn to the characters/people that resemble them. Hence the importance of having ethic role models on TV and movies that don't pander to stereotypes because kids will always tend to look up to those like them because it makes it seem more like an obtainable goal. That's most likely why the upcoming Disney Princess Movie (I'm going to say it's called The Frog Princess) has an African-American princess.

Said By Artemis Panthar

Well for me, personally, I never much cared for any of the princesses as I found their movies to be quite boring overall

Anyone who calls Aladdin boring is a Communist.

Aladdin isn't a princess movie, it just has a princess in it. The story is actually about Aladdin and the lamp and his pursuit of Jasmine, but since she's not the lead character, it's not a princess movie <!--s51-->:3<!--/s51--> I love Aladdin

Fun fact: We didn't have too much money when I was a kid so my aunt always made copies of the movies her in-laws gave to her son for us. We had almost all the Disney movies because of it except Aladdin because my aunt's in-laws are insanely racist and refused to give their grandson anything with middle eastern characters in them.

this thread is sweet because in a roundabout way it is saying that i look ripped like everyone in 300

I totally shouldn't have put in that fourth option... way too tempting for you guys.

Most Disney stories are stolen from other culture's folk tales and then copyrighted as Disney's own.

Not really, it's just that people are culturally pigeonholed and don't know that most Disney movies are derived from fairy tales (which have no copyright) and literary stories with their own sort of spin on it. They only have a copyright for their version, if you wanted to make an animated movie based on, say, The Little Mermaid, you can so long as you don't intentionally mimic the Disney version.

There was a Snow White "sequel" created by an independent company that wanted to make "sequels" to all Disney movies (which, of course, you can't do). Because Snow White is an actual story, they couldn't be prevented from making them but they weren't allowed to use the specific dwarfs so they went with female dwarfs so they could still allude some continuity to the Disney story.

Said By Artemis Panthar

you can so long as you don't intentionally mimic the Disney version.

This rule, like everything copyright, doesn't apply or applies less in parody

girls, it's a poll. Vote ! (I know I did)

Of course, I was saying in use like the cartoon "Happily Ever After" which tries to call back to the Disney version, not for parody but to lure in unsuspecting parents into buy their kids the sequel. That is what violates the copyright.