I'm a little princess

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Today I threw caution to the wind and participated on a Fet thread, I should really know better by now. The question was if one identified as a princess and what it means to you. I've discovered that princess' are roundly hated, lol. 

Mind you I figured I was going to be in the minority since I proudly wear the princess tiara but even so it was enough to make me blink a few times to see the level of vitriol the very image a princess conjured for most people.  There was also an interesting unwillingness or inability to define a princess as anything but spoiled manipulative and vapid. I think Disney has given the princess a bad rap, lol. 

When Das and I discussed my princessness it was with the understanding that a princess has no autonomy and while it is true that she is considered graceful, elegant, beautiful, and hopefully intelligent those are attributes cultivated at the king's behest to enhance the value of her as his property. Historically a princess was a king's property to be used in negotiations, to help run household, entertain visiting royals, and/or make politically advantageous marriages at the command of the king. A princess must do as she is told and is kept secluded in a gilded cage but in a cage none the less.  Pleasing the king is for her a matter of utmost importance since he literally holds her life in his hands. She holds no power on her own.  

Seeing the princess archetype in this manner I don't see how being a princess is at odds with being a slave. In essence I see a princess as a slave in silks. It makes me wonder if the idea of slave is so intertwined with suffering and hardship that a bold proclamation of pampering and indulges that's not apologized for or somehow made little of is seen as not real slavery.  I'm really glad that is not an idea that Das holds, I'd be in trouble if it was because I know myself well enough to know I'd make a terrible workhorse. 

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