How Disney Movies and Romantic Comedies are Destroying Real Relationships
“Soulmate” - that mythical creature that Disney movies and rom-coms have conditioned women to spend a lifetime searching for. Fairytales and romantic Hollywood movies are often called “chick flicks”, because their primary purveyors are women. We sigh and swoon when Prince Charming wakes up the Princess from the evil witch’s curse with the “kiss of true love” and dream about our own soulmate, who will one day sweep us off our feet. How are girls supposed to identify their soulmate or “one true love” out of the billions on this planet? Disney princesses have a leg up on us mere mortals when it comes to soulmate identification because when they experience true love’s kiss , they get confirmation (ding ding ding, soulmate alert) by waking up from a curse, sparkles flying from their body, or something else magical happening in true Disney fashion that proves once and for all that Prince Charming is indeed their soulmate. Some rom-com heroines put Disney princesses to shame by recognizing ...