American girl's outlook on love may be slightly tainted
thanks to Walt Disney. Maybe I can only blame myself. I believed that if a
mermaid, with a singing lobster friend, could find a real man (or a prince) to
love her, of coarse in real life love ended with “They Lived Happily After” all while singing "One Day My Prince Will Come". We
straight ser believe this princess stuff and half of the female population
dad’s reinforce this idea by referring to their daughters as Princess (some may even be self proclaimed princess’s).
From Childhood, girls believe love comes in the form of a
fairytale and this may be true when you find “your prince charming”, but the
road to finding that person more resembles the Tornado from the Wizard of OZ.
Love hits you hard, fast, spins your a@# around, and you do not find Mr. Right at a
grand ball where you wear glass slippers.
Most women spend the first 20-30 years of their life
dreaming of the fairytale about the way love goes down (two words Note Book,
there are even make-believe stories for adults). When you fall in love with
someone, I admit the first stages pretty much resembles a fairytale throwing up
inside you, but when you marry “your prince charming”, the wedding day does not
involve a grip of singing mice making your dress. For some people love may be
found easily during high school. For others finding love involves a global
search for their prince charming (and after the wedding I bet grabbing him a
beer, while he burps on the couch no longer makes him very charming).
The men in America do not live in castles in a land far
away. Some may not even hold a door open for you these days. I guess we all probably wind up creating
our own version of what prince charming would be to us, but Disney straight ser
creates a pretty difficult standard for men to live up to. Most girls will
continue to dream of wearing a princess dress on their wedding day (I viewed
enough Say Yes To The Dress episodes
to know that). So I guess Disney will remain straight ser about love, while young girls continue to wear their favorite princess dress in public in hopes their prince charming will come. Just sayin'.
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