Ahhh this is amazing! Excuse the obvious joke, but goddamn this really is fucking flawlessly edited. As always with your vids, it's so densely edited and put together, that I'm sure I'm missing a ton. But to me, while there are critical elements (particularly in the way Disney retells the stories with the same elements and the limitations of those narrative roles, and the shaming of sex, which gah the way you edited all those parallels is amazing), the vid is more about how girls see more in these stories than perhaps is always intended. Or that there's more to those roles than the label "princess" allows for. They aren't happily ever after romances, but stories of girls going after what they want, busting down doors and picking up arms, saving each other and their lovers and themselves. I love the lines and parallels you draw, visually and thematically, as the diversity in the stories increases, racial diversity and also diversity in the types of stories these women are in, diversity in the kinds of things they want. You can put these characters in a romance, but girl fans know better, or will bust them out. <3

Which, I suppose, is also a little cynical; Disney will widen the tent, just a little, to keep inculcating young girls with princess culture. But princesses have kind of bows that have arrows now, so I think we're winning.