Dress As a Hot Dog on Princess Day, Win the Internet Forever
“What is the secret to winning the eternal favor of the internet?” the blogger asks, craning her body toward the wizened oracle, intent on not missing a word.
Inside the Mattel-Hasbro Corporate Brawl Over Who Gets to Make Disney Princess Dolls
Wanna see a fever-pitch corporate brawl? Let the rights to a franchise like the Disney princesses go up for grabs.
Kate Beaton Talks the Appeal of Princesses (And Farting Ponies)
If you’re a history nerd and you’ve spent any time whatsoever online, you’ve probably familiar with Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant comics. Because jokes about Lord Byron and Liszt and the Brontë sisters’ questionable taste in men are great, and hers in particular are hilarious.
Snap Judgment: Europe's Royals Love Tiaras and Pink
While the British royal family prefers to wear ridiculously elaborate hats to weddings, the rest of northern Europe’s royal women prefer the good-old-fashioned tiara. Princesses and tiaras are a natural fit. Besides, there’s no better way to display wealth, power, and lineage more meaningfully than casually wearing…
What Does It Take To Become A Professional Faerie Princess?
After seven years working in the tech industry, Jenny Richman decided that she needed more magic in her life. So she traded her keyboard for a pair of shimmery wings, taking a job as a professional faerie at children’s parties. There, she found the job fulfillment she had been hoping for.
YouTube Bans, Unbans Video of Little Girls Cussing for Feminism
It's the old YouTube two-step! The site temporarily removed—then quickly reinstated—FCKH8's controversial viral video featuring little girls in princess costumes throwing around f-bombs and feminist stats.
Virginia Man Claims Kingdom So His Daughter Can Be a Real Princess
Nuzzled right in between Egypt and Sudan lies Bi'r Tawil a 2060 sq km unclaimed territory that was the result of a colonial-era border discrepancy. Bi'r Tawil is one of the last remaining unclaimed territories in the world—that is, until a Virginia man took it upon himself to trek out there and lay claim to the…
Rejected Princesses: The Weirder Tales Disney Will Never Do
We all know that Disney tends to soften those folk tales that they turn into movies, giving them happy endings, removing the less PG elements. However, there are some stories out there that are just a little too outrageous for even the House of Mouse, and there are quite of few of them that involve maidens.
Who Is the Most Popular Disney Princess on eBay?
Not that Disney had ever dialed it back on the princess thing, but the recent mania surrounding Frozen has really amped it up, making Elsa a new classic, right up there with Cinderella. But the true test of a Disney princess' popularity and staying power is not how much money she earns for Disney, but how much she…
Would You Swipe Right for These Oscar-Nominated Characters?
I'm going to be real, I would swipe left all the way for Samantha (no way, no how, goodbye) and would probably break my finger swiping right for Anna and Dr. Ryan Stone (who has been to space! I will always want to meet someone who has been to space! Even if that space was fake!). (Swiping, by the way, is Tinder's…
These Disney Villain Perfume Bottles Will Please Your Inner Vixen
If smelling bad looks this good, then damn, I don't want to smell good. (You know what I mean.) These perfume bottles designed by a Japanese artist who goes by Ruby Spark are the perfect renditions of the villains they represent. I'm not really into the whole Disney Princesses thing, but Disney Villainesses? I…
'Enchanted Ball' Board Game Manages to be Sexist, Stupid and Pointless
The Enchanted Ball is board game in which up to four princess compete for the affection of one prince. So, it's perpetually the penultimate episode of The Bachelor.
GoldieBlox Pulls Beastie Boys' Song from Viral Video
After a week of back-and-forth, it looks like the copyright scrap between toy company GoldieBlox and the Beastie Boys saga might finally be drawing to a close, just in time for everyone's lawyers to go home for Thanksgiving.
Beastie Boys to Girls: Get Your Own Damn Song
The Beastie Boys are threatening to sue GoldieBlox because the toy company used a parody of the Beastie Boys' song Girls in their awesome video showing little girls using an enormous Rube Goldberg contraption to turn off a shitty princess TV ad. Along with Universal Music, the Beastie Boys sent a letter to GoldieBlox…
Little Girls Defeat Princess Culture with Giant Rube Goldberg Machine
I hope you're ready to be blown away, because everything about this video has got it all: a hearty rejection of princess dogma, children scream-singing about female empowerment, a giant Rube Goldberg machine...
Disney Princesses Trade Tiaras for Guns in First Black Ops Mission
In this, the first episode of new web series Black Ops: DisneyPrincesses, Jasmine, Belle, Ariel and Snow White are CIA operatives belonging to an elite squad that disarms international security threats. I know, right??
Nicolas Cage as Disney Princesses Is Natural End of Disney Princess Meme
All good things must and should come to an end, and it feels right for the Disney Princesses as X meme to go out in a blaze of Caged glory. (Probably by Driving Angry.)
Disney Princesses Made Over as Superheroes
This artist's collection of princess badasses features Mulan as Psylocke, Jasmine as Wonder Girl, and Ariel as Mera. Is it too early to start planning Halloween costumes?
Guess Which Disney Princess This Is
The correct answer is: It's Brave's Merida. The more correct answer: It could be any of the white ones (so... almost all of them?) with a wavy — it's not even curly! Jesus! — red wig on. Ugh!
Disney Pulls Sexy Merida Makeover After Public Backlash
In preparation for her "coronation ceremony" last Saturday, Disney gave the Brave heroine Merida a makeover, redesigning the character as thinner with a bigger bust, more revealing dress, a face full of makeup, less wild hair, and replacing her signature bow and arrows with a sassy sash. People were pissed and turned…
