During Princess Prep, the girls learn how to curtsy, have good posture, ride a horse, and drink tea. The creator of the camp, Jerramy Fine, said being a princess requires sacrifice: "You have to live your life for everyone else, so it's a lot about sacrifice and thinking about others." Thinking about others and sacrificing isn't bad. However, Fine later talks about Disney princesses who have been known to be self-sacrificing for the good of their man.
Furthermore, when the reporter asks the girls why they want to be princesses, one answers, "You get rich." I think this is interesting. While the camp is trying to teach the girls philanthropy, there is [clearly] a class issue. The camp is showing that princesses are always kind and loving. They earn what they have (money) through the goodness of their heart. This obviously isn't true.
So, for these little girls, the way to achieve their dreams is to snag a rich guy by being humble, self-sacrificing, and pretty? I also love how one of the "story highlights" is that this is a camp for little girls "wanting Kate Middleton's fairy-tale life" -- a narrative mediated and overpromoted by the media who profit from it.
Will the madness never end?
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I have seen shows about these princess camps before. I think I read an article where Tyra Banks had one or a few of the contestants on her show. I think it is crazy what these little girls are going through. But I think its mostly the parents that push these little girls into believing that the only way to be is to become a princess. As a little girl of course your going to listen to your mom. Mother is a lot of the times a little girls role model. And I think as long as there are crazy mothers out there then NO the madness will not end.
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