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@valtmy No worries 😀

@rochellaine

At the rate the list is growing, I’ll have to come and live in America, which would be unfortunate because my list of other places I want to see is even longer 😛

@rochellaine

Since the Bastille no longer exists I wouldn’t have thought they had much need of a key 😛 But no, I didn’t know it was there! That’s pretty cool! I’ll have to add Mount Vernon to my list of places to look at when I come to America!

@catwing Okay 🙂

@rochellaine

You around today?

@catwing Heyo!

@jenwriter17 Ah, my dad’s a bit like that. Everyone else in my family loves musicals though!

Farewell…*sighs*

@jenwriter17 I saw you discussing it with her, but I don’t think you actually mentioned it to me. I too have been educating  myself in the old musicals.

@rochellaine @catwing @alia Bye!

@jenwriter17 Hello!

@rochellaine

True! You make a good case for love at first sight.

@rochellaine

I don’t see Mulan as a female empowerment film, though certainly people like to claim it as such, rather I see it as a story about love that is so strong you would sacrifice your life for it. In the film, she goes to war for her father, in the original story/history its for her little brother, and I know, or at least would like to…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I messed up your tag in my above message!

@alia Me too, I’ve tried explaining that before. I think two examples of Disney characters who actually do have it would be Quasimodo and Rapunzel, but definitely not Belle.

And again, me too! I have only a general idea of Ancient China, but I still know its pretty…[Read more]

@catwing

I’m not a Peter Pan fan by any means, but yes, I always thought stories about The Green Knight and the Swan Knight were very cool!

I know. it probably comes from a lack of wholesome Disney films.

@rochellaie

Well, I’m not against Disney, I believe half the claims against them are just a bit weak and exaggerated. I do know that I’ve never liked them, but I also know that I was homeschooled and thus grew up away from the pressure of what other girls liked and at a very young age I knew what I liked and I was rather rebellious (Against soc…[Read more]

@catwing

So there’s a positive thing regarding Cinderella! (Whereas, I probably wanted to cut off someone’s head if I had to do a chore I didn’t like. 😛 )

Ah, I’ve never liked Tinkerbell, simply because I was an Enlightened Child who’d read Peter Pan and knew exactly what a….horrible person Tinker bell was. And, as already stated, I scorned…[Read more]

@alia

I admit to being the tomboy who scorned Disney movies and read about real princesses and queens when I was little (and still do, to be honest!). And yes, I definitely agree that ALL movies, at least that I’ve seen, promote unrealistic body images and I don’t think Disney is better or worse in that regard.

Okay, its been a long time since…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I do find it very difficult to believe in true love at first sight  though. 😛 I can’t even keep up a conversation of small talk with someone I’ve only met once 😀

I do have a serious question for you: How is Cinderella purposefully disobeying her stepmother’s explicit order that she is not to go the ball different to Rapunzel…[Read more]

@valtmy

The opinions are quite divided 😀

@alia

They just say thing like princesses hold up beauty as the absolute virtue of a woman, promote that you can only be happy if a man loves you, reinforce gender stereotypes and unrealistic body images. etcetera, etcetera.

I was just curious because I didn’t grow up watching Disney movies, so I can’t really have an opinion on whether they’re…[Read more]

@valtmy

Well, I should be researching the French Revolution, but instead I’m sick in bed reading about whether or not Disney princesses are bad for girls. Are any of you guys watchers of Disney?

@rochellaine WHOOOHOOOO

@alia Very good 😛 That’ll make you cry all the more!

@catwing how’s your editing?

@alia WHAAATTT??? *tries not be extremely jealous*

@catwing Oh, cute!!