Selflessness, not blindly obeying

Thank you for your reply :)
(No, I don't really post stuff like this on tumblr, and I don't post on fanpop)

I just think that because she sadly does not have a lot of screentime, and does not fight or behave like a tomboy, she is immediately branded as weak.

Because people view royalty as something that gives you everything you want, they tend to forget that Aurora was thrusted into a role that she learned about a mere few hours before. Royalty back then meant a lot of responsibility. She is giving up everything she ever wanted in order to be of service to her people, and that is something that I doubt many people would do.

Personally I think that obedience has become undervalued these days, being seen as weak rather than a sacrifice for a team.

I have become convinced that nobody reads these.

Oh come on. She didn't want to get away from Phillip because he was a stranger! She wanted to meet someone. Did you not pay attention to everything leading up to that scene? And then she agrees to meet him - not alone - but with her aunts present - a very smart thing that DOES make her a good role model to fifteen year olds/sixteen year olds (it's her birthday, remember?)

THEN she finds out she's a betrothed princess and she's going back to the castel to meet her parents that she hasn't seen since she was an infant and essentially never met!

And you think the fact that she willingly left to meet her parents and live the life she was born to lead instead of running away and fighting to be with a guy she's known for TWENTY MINUTES makes her a better role model for modern females?

Think again, sista. Did we watch the same movie?

'she didn't stand up for her dreams and desires to the fairies when they told her she had to be a princess and never see Phillip again'

Well that was what the thing was that made her so selfless and where her maturity shone through. She actually recognised her responsibility and went ahead to take her future, and what would of been really weak IMO, was if she demanded that she could stay in the forest and the cottage and carried on about it, instead of looking from a more mature viewpoint. The fact that she knew what she had to do, and did, despite what she really wanted (and got in the end, but still) showed more backbone, IMO.

She may not have been strong like modern-day Disney Princesses, but she was strong in the fact that, like some Princesses in modern day, she didn't throw all responsibility to the wind because she wanted to be with someone she only just met. She was just as strong, she just took the responsibility path instead of the 'rushing down into true love' path.

I will say Pocahontas was also selfless, as well, but considering the different circumstances of their respective films, I don't think it makes Pocahontas any more stronger than Aurora. Just because you realize your responsibility doesn't mean that your weak, it just means you know when to accept what you have to do and other things sometimes need to come second.

Selfless or not, Aurora still had no backbone.

She didn't love her prince- she didn't even know him. That's why she was crying: she had to leave the only life she knew after finding out it was a lie, had to leave the first man she'd ever met and come to like to marry a stranger.

And for the sake of it? Or... because he saved her, they love each other, they're engaged?

I am under the strong suspicious that you guys never actually watch Disney movies..

The entire world is falling to ruins and poor Cheshire's off his tea.