Little Girls
Not little girls in themselves, although admittedly I do try and have as little to do with as possible, but when people refer to little girls as princesses.

They are not princesses.

First off, most princesses don't dress in ball-gowns and sparkly wings. Also, no pink. They wear tweed and flat shoes and wave at people, with a carefully-neutral expression on their faces. They also tend to be dignified - they are seldom seen showing their knickers to the world because they couldn't repress the urge to do a cartwheel.

Similarly, behaving in a certain way does not make you a princess. Wear tweed and wave all you want, unless you're born or married into someone's family who was just that bit better at mass murder several centuries ago, you're just a bit odd. Charming little girl behaviour just doesn't cut it.

Also, being a little girl immediately make you an evil and manipulative whatname anyway, so calling them a princess is giving off entirely the wrong message, as well as being unjustified. It'll only encourage them.
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Tue 6 May 2008, 19:50, 2 replies)

Fairy tale princesses DO wear pink, frilly dresses, sparkly wings, and crowns too.
It is called playing
being a child
using your imagination
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 7 May 2008, 1:39, closed)

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Playing and being a child I can just about understand, even though I don't have to like it, but using your imagination? It's just doing what everyone else does. Doesn't sound very imaginative to me.

Not that little boys aren't guilty of it too. Not every large object is a fucking spaceship. Of all the wealth of things it could be, why always choose a fucking spaceship? Children are just like people, but worse.
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Wed 7 May 2008, 16:57, closed)