Why is the Internet obsessed with Disney princesses?

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Take a moment and be honest with yourself. Sometime in the past few months, you — of your own free and sober will — opened up and read a “Disney princess” listicle. Or quiz. Or worst yet, Tumblr post

Of course, this isn’t the kind of media you typically digest—you consider yourself a far more epicurean consumer. Ten years ago, while the feral, piddling intellects of the world scrounged like dogs for local news scraps, you had a print subscription to The Economist. And while you haven’t read that Ta-Nehisi Coates article just quite yet, you already liked it twice on Facebook. You’re not like the rest of these media-savvy millennial degenerates. There was just something about this “Disney princesses as hot dogs” story that touched you, psychologically. You are, and it was, different. Read more…

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