#also the fact that the Disney princess they referred to was forced into child labour and had to toil away hours after hours and was forced

[buttercuparry]

Even if Grrm was writing a Disney fanfic, I think people forget who the heroines truly are. They mentioned Cinderella? Cinderella's story of keeping hope resonates so much because not once she lets the unkindness shown to her, bleed onto those who are even weaker than her.

Belle looks beyond Gaston's beauty and is disgusted by what he offers her. Snow White was similar to Cinderella. Obviously they are going on with the most superficial discussion of a tale that has already been watered down so that it might be suitable for children. But even with the old Disney princess movies where sometimes beauty=to good and evil=to ugly, the girls were more than damsels who got their struggle rewarded by marrying into royalty.

Sansa perhaps does have a trope parallel to protagonists who keep lighting a beacon of hope even in dreariness. And maybe her storyline is about constantly maturing in ways one terms happiness- marrying the golden haired prince and having his golden haired babies to wondering if anyone would truly love her beyond her claim of inheritence. This suggests that perhaps in future, she too may consider a relationship that isn't motivated by the consideration of the station one holds in life. But this has yet to happen in any significant way. When they say that Sansa is still the same girl from AGoT ( she has grown somewhat though) and would continue to be so till A Dream of Spring, they imply that they see none of the wrongs she did in AGoT. She was gentle yes, but gentleness has nothing to do with kindness. And Sansa wasn't kind in AGoT. She has been kind perhaps on some occasions (growth definitely) throughout the series, but she still has a long long way to go if they truly want her to parallel a Disney princess (which would definitely include being horrified at the frivolity of the tourney feast and the huge lemoncake during the onset of winter and starvation of the mass )

Words cannot express how INCORRECT—