Take That, Peggy Orenstein

Princesses dance and sing

fun, pretty,

happy,

nice,

Brave,

and

smart.

Like to dress up

help people

have a prince

anyone can be a

PRINCESS.

That's the word from my feisty, princess-loving 5-year-old niece. Brave and smart! (And wearing a red dress.) Call me crazy, but that doesn't sound like a prescription for low self-esteem, pre-feminist underachievement, or a "lifelong struggle over her body image, a Hundred Years’ War of dieting, plucking, painting and perpetual dissatisfaction with the results."

And thanks for the responses to my previous princess post. Keep 'em coming (here, below, or, like Katherine's, in the mail).