I feel like doing something a little different tonight for Make My List Monday. There have been a lot of exciting ideas and changes in my personal life lately, and so tonight, rather than share my to-do list for the upcoming week, I want to pretend it’s still the weekend and live in fantasy land.

Since I just saw a commercial for Disney World (I’m trying to watch the Bachelor although its pretty dreadfully boring again), I wanted to make a list of the top Disney Princesses and female characters(of my heydey, that is. I stopped watching somewhere between Pocahantas and Mulan) and to put my two cents in about which princesses rock, and which I find awfully useless. Feel free to weigh in your OWN thoughts!

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The best:

• Belle (Beauty and the Beast). Bookish, feisty, family oriented, but kind and affectionate… um, I think I may have modeled myself after her all of these years?  Be honest, we all want to be Belle. But with Gaston, not Beast.
• Ariel (The Little Mermaid) Okay, so this little lady sure gets herself into some predicaments. But she’s strong-willed, funny, optimistic, and daring. Plus, who doesn’t want her fiery red hair?
• Jasmine  (Aladdin) Forget Kelly Clarkson, Jasmine was the original Miss Independent. Forget Aladdin too, she would have been a wise and fair sultaness I think!

The meh:

• Cinderella. Look, I admire the girl’s work ethic. But for pete’s sake, grow a pair Cindyrelly!
• Pocahantas. Loyal, loving, spiritual. Those are the pros. Boring, passive, forgettable are the cons.

The worst:

• Alice (Alice in Wonderland)  She takes her advice from anonymous notes she finds and clinically insane rabbits? and then she continues on taking the advice of drugged up cats and caterpillars? She digs her own grave, or hole, or whatever, in my opinion. Her ONE upside? Killer headband, lady. I covet.
• Nala (the Lion King) Be honest- does she serve any function besides getting Simba in trouble?
• Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Snow White- oh, I’M sorry- did I lump two characters together? Perhaps its because they are so dreadfully stupid, boring, and forgettable that the only thing I can remember about either is something about being asleep until woken up by the Prince with a kiss. Oh, I just fell asleep while thinking about it. oops!

 I focused just on Disney ladies tonight to keep things under a manageable word limit, but there have been some great other chicas in  animation that  bear recognition: Fiona from Shrek, and the heroine from the new movie (I think Pixar) coming out this year called Brave. I probably won’t post about them, though. I’ll focus instead on DISNEY WITCHES AND EVIL FEMALE CHARACTERS…. which are arguably more interesting than the princesses and goody goodies anyway. Ursula anyone?

What do you think of the Disney Princesses/ Lead Females? Have I offended anyone with my distaste for Aurora or Nala? Which characters did you grow up loving?

Meri