Pink Princess Stage

This is a thing? In an anthropology class last year we discussed the “problem with adolescence.” We talked about how  only in America do girls go through the pink princess stage. Only here do we think that little girls “naturally” progress as princesses. Obviously a young girl in the northern regions of Ghana wouldn’t have a pink girly stage. In all honesty, she is too busy carrying water from the well to wash her clothes – I’ve been there and seen them doing it.

Mostly, I was surprised there were parental guidelines that suggested that your daughters will go through this. I had to think hard about it too. Did I go through this phase? I never was into pink too much, and the only thing I did with my barbies was dress them up and leave them in their house. If my sister touched them to try to actually play with them, she got beat up. Jk, I just yelled at her.

The only really girly thing I did was I dressed up with scarves. I had these old scarves that were my great grandmas or something that I liked to wrap around my wrists, neck, head, and waist. Any other moment I could be reading or fishing or climbing a tree. I have never even seen Snow White or Sleeping Beauty all the way through.

So why do most girls go through this phase? Probably because most girls like princesses.  And why not? As long as the parents recognize that they would love her whether she was a princess or a bookworm or a sports jock what’s wrong with liking girly things? My professor made it seem like she was going to encourage her daughter against princesses. Whoa lady, settle down.