princesses
Original: princesses on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): In a lot of movies now, the princess character does important stuff instead of just getting saved.
Panel 2 — Two women in conversation.
Woman A: Great! Now it's the girls who are subtly legitimating a system of hereditary aristocracy.
Panel 3
Woman A: How nice that they can have charming little adventures, while dwelling in the monument of the laborer's toil.
Panel 4
Woman A: I think the Princess in Beauty and the Beast started life as a peasant.
Woman B: Class traitor!
Votey:
A close-up of a woman (the Beast's enchanted-object skeptic) looking up, exasperated, saying: Why are the teacups so proud of their chains?!
Panel 2 — Two women in conversation.
Woman A: Great! Now it's the girls who are subtly legitimating a system of hereditary aristocracy.
Panel 3
Woman A: How nice that they can have charming little adventures, while dwelling in the monument of the laborer's toil.
Panel 4
Woman A: I think the Princess in Beauty and the Beast started life as a peasant.
Woman B: Class traitor!
Votey:
A close-up of a woman (the Beast's enchanted-object skeptic) looking up, exasperated, saying: Why are the teacups so proud of their chains?!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. The opening caption reads: "In a lot of movies now, the princess character does important stuff instead of just getting saved." Two women then discuss this critically. The first woman complains: "Great! Now it's the girls who are subtly legitimating a system of hereditary aristocracy. How nice that they can have charming little adventures, while dwelling in the monument of the laborer's toil." She adds that the Princess in Beauty and the Beast started life as a peasant. The second woman snaps: "Class traitor!" Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of an exasperated woman looking upward, asking, "Why are the teacups so proud of their chains?!" — a jab at the singing enchanted servants in Beauty and the Beast.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.