Dude in Distress
My daughter finally got her very own Dora, the Explorer DVD from a friend of mine (Thanks, Gayathri) with a few irritating (to me) episodes which she loves.
Anyway, there was this one episode where Dora and her friends save a Prince who is imprisoned in a castle by an evil witch. Yeah, you read that right - not "princess" but "prince". I was seriously getting worried about all the ever-distressed damsels that dudes saved in my daughter's fairy tales and wondered if my daughter's resentment with me "working" was a result of the stupid stereotypes that she was being bombarded with. To be honest, the queen of our home is terrified of millepedes and the king of the house routinely rescues her from them - but that is different from helpless virgins being saved from the dragon by knights in shiny armour, right? Right?
So, maybe I am a wee bit pleased about the Dora episode that she watched. The evil "witch" could have been a "wizard", but then, I may draw flak for making much ado about this whole feminism thing.
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