u/EnchantedEssays

All of the above are current multi-princess products or ranges aimed at the brands main target age demo [and even younger] from the UK's Disney Store website.

I was inspired by this post claiming that saying that Raya doesn't fit the Disney Princess brand is misogynist.

What I think that u/Queasy-Meringue-2860 here doesn't get is that this isn't about saying that girls can't be tomboyish or heroes. We're merely saying that the aesthetics of the main DP brand. Despite all being current products, none feature Raya. In fact, there's no products based on her or her film on the UK store site at all.

And before you bring up film performance, notice how prominent Tiana is in these products? Her film famously under performed, and yet on products where there's only 3 or 4 characters, one of them is usually her. It's almost certainly because she fits the brands visual ideal so well with her big, poofy dress, particularly out of all of the princesses of colour [3 white princesses on a brand trying to dispel the misconception that their lineup is very white is a bad idea].

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So, which princesses do they exclude the most? Merida [tomboyish, not from a musical, dark dress], Mulan [tomboyish, war legend rather than a fairy tale] and Pocahontas [not a fairy tale, brown dress]. Despite being accepted without conforming to traditional femininity being her whole arc, Mulan was marketed in her matchmaker dress for years and it is still the one that is used for kids costumes because it suits the ideal of the brand.

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They no longer have Pocahontas costumes, but when they did, they heavily altered it to make it more glittery and glamorous.

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Some changed the dress from beige to gold!

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They do still sell two fashion dolls of her, and both added some gilding and such to her dress to make it more glamorous.

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I honestly don't think Mulan and Pocahontas would have been a part of the original DP lineup if it wasn't for the fact that it would be so white without them.

Jasmine is the only other Princess who wears trousers, and that has a sort of half skirt around them in most designs of the outfit.

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Now, if you're a 4 year old girl who's only allowed to buy one costume in the Disney Store, would you choose this?

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I'm not saying that they never would, but most kids that young are going to choose a more stimulating. And have they ever had Raya costumes in the Bibidi Bobidi Boutique?

There's nothing wrong with these girly aesthetics or toys, just like there's nothing wrong with action figures. The only thing that's wrong is stigmatising genders playing with one or the other. If you had siblings of the opposite gender, you played with their toys and they played with yours. An ideal future is one in which a boy plays with the tea set below without fear of shame from his peers.

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The association with feminine aesthetics like pink being in some way in opposition with feminism is actually regressive. I get where it comes from. Companies have a history of slapping pink on existing product and charging more to get people to buy the same product again for girls. However, there's nothing inherently wrong with boys or girls liking pink! The corporations are bad, not the colours! I think this is also why the myth that the films of Disney Princesses are far more misogynistic than they are was so prevalent 10 years ago.

Anyway, call me when they make a Raya ballet doll. I'll wait...

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