Are Princesses good role models?

I think Barbie is a better role model!

Because she is an overachiever and can do any job she wants to while still being able to have a mansion and so much things. She has alot of cars and travel buses/planes.

Dream house and Castles.

Because she is super skinny and her body proportions are way out of possibility (bust).

Let's teach our daughters that!

Or maybe Bratz!

They are great role models too.

They teach young girls to dress like a hooker and put on makeup at extreme young ages.

And to wear heels and hoop earrings.

GREAT!

Some are. Some aren't.

Snow White, the self-effacing moron, probably was not.

Princess Jazmine seemed pretty brave and intelligent ... moreso than her pa, anyway.

But all this talk of "role models" is misdirected anyway. While there are lessons to be had in any good story, one is not supposed to model one's life on a fictional character, unless one thinks that writers are (or even have the potential to be) the definers of the ideal.

Frankly, while I found Mickey to be occasionally entertaining, I had no desire to "become the mouse." And while I really enjoyed watching Luke Skywalker slinging his lightsaber around, I don't spend hours meditating on The Force or trying to use Jedi Mind Tricks on my coworkers.

They're just stories. Princesses are pretty, rich, and privileged. Fun to play "imagine" with for little girls, but not intended as "role models."

As Washington Redskins runningback John Riggins once said to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the US Supreme Court, "Lighten up, Sandy-baby, it's all a game."

Here's my take on that: it depends on the princess. I love the story of Sleeping Beauty, but Aurora was a spoiled, selfish, idiot. Ariel was foolish and immature. Now, a princess like Belle or Cinderella or Jasmine--see, now these are good role models. They were brave, caring and full of heart. If I ever have a daughter, I want to raise her with the idea that she's a princess and a good princess should be strong, loving, faithful, determined and loyal. Every girl/woman is a princess, some good, some not so good.

Everything should be taken in context. I used to play the imagine game with my daughter. Imagine if girls really had a life like that and then I'd ask her what she thought. I would say it is fun to pretend and of course she loved all the disney princess stuff.

The first and foremost important role models are parents!

Teaching girls that they are perfect and entitled to anything and everything they want is pretty dangerous if you ask me.

As they said on the news - The princess culture is all about beauty and bling. That and the idea that you are above everyone else, which if every girl is a princess, means you're above every boy.

Yeah - Great role model

Well, let's see...

Snow white: rejected from her home, she cheerfully made new friends and a new life

Cinderella: Endured years of mistreatment and did not become bitter

Sleeping Beauty: humble, and valued her heart over duty

Ariel: Pursued her dream at any cost

Belle: Sacrificed everything for her father, brave, tolerant, open-minded.

Pocahontas: A teacher of her ways, a bridge between people

Jasmine: challenged and would not be controlled by tradition

Mulan: true to herself and risked everything for self-realization

I'm sure you could make arguments against them too, but these are traits I admire and would not mind my daughter learning.

you could always go read the article - since that is a headliner on yahoo - but sure i think they can be good role models, what girl doesnt want to be a princess

I personally think that a much better choice to form a role model would be a parent... rather than a fictional character.

yes and no. yes because they can allow us to see that life can be good for us gilrs and that we are trully special beings. no because they give us a totally false perception of what man a.k.a. prince charming is supposed to be like for us----- and lets face it life doesnt turn out to be a fairy tale.

i think they are good role models when we are young and innocent ONLY, but they are not good because we can never end up in a perfect world.

No not really because all those Disney Princesses lives are fake and lil gurls who like watching them believe that they can have a life like theirs when really its fake...but i guess so!!