My niece loves pink. She love's dress's, Minnie Mouse, and Frozen. When we hang out, her idea of a good time, is brushing my hair, then me braiding hers. Her parents are hard core feminist's and they don't understand exactly why she loves those things but she does (note*it probably has to do with the social conditioning that we've subjected our country too, but that's another article.)

Recently I've been noticing that there are a lot of memes, gifs, ect about "cool" and "unique" girls being something different than a "boring" princess. The meme on the cover of this weeks article is what prompted "it's alright to be a princess".

I would like to start by saying how it's harmful to applaud a girl for not being a "lame princess" and by dressing up as a character with much more depth (say a historically male superhero).

My issue is that we've tried so hard to let our daughters be whatever they want that sometimes we can undermine the idea that princess's can be a badass just like the prince. Lets talk about story lines of my favorite leading ladies', Esmeralda; a slut shamed gypsy who had NO problem sticking up for the people she loved. Mulan; totally opposes the traditional gender roles and fights to the (almost literal) death for honor and respect. Elsa; lets talk about a girl who wasn't worried about getting wifey'd up she literally RAN from that party so she could figure herself out.

I caution everyone to PLEASE think about what you're promoting. I personally like to check myself by using the "If I were saying this to a boy would it sound the same, and constantly trying to keep myself woke". Kid's can be whatever they want and it's time that we remind them.

So, lets raise our sons more like daughters and our daughters more like sons, and when they like something, let them like it, because there ain't nothin wrong with that room full of princess's and there aint' nothing wrong with batman.

Happy Haloween y'all.