According to liberal parenting blogger Sachi Feris — author of Raising Race Conscious Children — allowing your child to dress up as Elsa from Disney’s animated movie, “Frozen,” for Halloween is offensive and sends a bad message to young children.
Feris wrote that allowing children to dress up as Queen Elsa — a white, flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Disney princess — incorrectly reinforces a notion that white beauty is supreme.
Feris revealed in the September blog post that her 5-year-old daughter wanted to dress up as either Moana or Elsa. She wrote that she found both costumes problematic.
Dressing up as the titular character of “Moana” was cultural appropriation, and dressing up as Elsa promoted white beauty, according to Feris.
“I had some reservations regarding both costume choices,” she wrote, “about cultural appropriation and the power/privilege carried by Whiteness, and about Whiteness and standards of beauty.”
About the Elsa costume, Feris wrote, “There is one thing I don’t like about the character of Elsa. I feel like because Elsa is a White princess, and we see so many white princesses, her character sends the message that you have to be a certain way to be ‘beautiful’ or to be a ‘princess.’”
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