If you haven’t already heard, Disney has decided they’re NOT going to do any new fairy tale movies for a while. The top children and family movie studio in Hollywood says that Tangled (featuring the princess Rapunzel – above left) will be the last fairy tale / princess movie it is doing for the foreseeable future. Having young kids myself and growing up with Disney movies like Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Mulan, and Beauty and the Beast (among others), I must say that I believe this to be a travesty. (Of course, it also bothers me because women just look so darn hot in princess costumes!!)

Disney claims that the reason for this change in movie culture is that girls simply no longer aspire to become princesses or even to get married. And, unfortunately, many experts agree. “By the time they’re 5 or 6, they’re not interested in being princesses,” said Dafna Lemish, chairman of the Radio and TV Department at Southern Illinois University and a self-proclaimed expert in the role of media in children’s lives. “They’re interested in being hot, in being cool. Clearly, they see this is what society values.”