Amy at the Angry Chicken said this about all the princess paraphernalia

“about the proliferation of princess stuff out there right now. Not just all the night gowns (these give me the heebies-all that synthetic!) but in the movies, etc. I was born in 1972 and it was all Holly Hobby, Free to Be, You and Me, back then and I refused to wear dresses (overalls only) after the age of 4-until I was 12. Seriously. My b-day parties were all about Snoopy, and I wanted to be Tatum O’Neil from the Bad News Bears. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for dress up, princess dress up too, but I just realized how much more pink and sparkle there is out there right now then when I was growing up”

I agree I never really played princess when I was growing up. I am still not a girly girl. Sure, I like sparkles and dresses, but I spend a minimum amount of time on hair and make up.

Somehow, I ended up with one little girl who is more like me-unfancy and one little girl who cannot resist a shiny object and loves to dress “fancy”. This little girl was a princess two Halloweens in a row. Finally, we convinced her to be something other then a princess and so we had a cowgirl (pink and sparkly) and a kitty (sparkly collar)

So is it dangerous to let our little girls be princess like the one the Wall Street Journalsuggests? Do you find the entire princess phenomena cute or distasteful?