After reading this, I think I need to subscribe to The Daily.

[GFLPraxis]

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2010/12/22/011111-coquette-prince-charming/

At moments like these, I want to drive up to Forest Lawn, find Walt Disney's grave, dig up whatever part of him wasn't cryogenically frozen, and bitch-slap him for infecting generations of American women with something I like to call "Prince Charming disease."

This is a terrible affliction that causes grown-ass women to ruin perfectly good relationships by pining away for a nebulous cartoon fiction: passionate, steamy, "happily ever after" love.


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Sorry, babe. Nobody is waiting around the corner on a white horse.

If you weren't emotionally, intellectually or physically satisfied, that would be another story — just not this one. You’re happy, and nothing is broken except your childlike set of unrealistic romantic expectations, which would be quaint if they weren’t so damaging to adult relationships like yours.

(I found this one interesting too: http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/01/11/020311-apps-breakingbytes-gadgetsplanes-pg1/ )

 

[awmazz]

Disney didn't invent the term Prince Charming. Oscar Wilde did in Dorian Gray.

Anyway, the being swept off her feet and 'living happily ever after' concept has been around for centuries in all the old fairy tales (Sleeping Beauty was printed in 1697, so is much older still), so that must mean women have had unrealistic romantic expectations since the Dark Ages.

That this guy gal correlates this age-old cultural concept to modern Disney cartoons, to paraphase his her own words here: would be quaint if it weren’t so damaging to adult brain synapses.

Edit - probably a bit of an over the top reply from me, but anything praising Murdoch just triggers a Pavlov reaction in me, like a white blood cell automatic immune response.

 

[ucfgrad93]

Thanks for sharing OP. I liked them. Too bad I don't have an iPad to test The Daily out on.