ANN HARRIS

“Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect” written by Stephanie Hanes, was published in Christian Science Monitor on October 3, 2011. Hanes wrote this article in response to the bulk of Disney princess toys and movies that came out around that time. The author uses logos when she contends that Disney Princesses have a gargantuan impact on the early development of children ages three to fourteen, by using a blog called, “Disney Princess Recovery: Brining Sexy Back for a Full Refund”.

This article can be divided into 5 sections. In the introduction the author presents a mother named Mary Finucane’s concern with her 3 year olds daughter lack of interest in actually enjoying being a toddler. In the next section Hanes offers up some research she’s done and shares her blog with us. In the third section, the author proposes that if they could get the girls to really see the damage that is being done, then maybe there could be a change. Hanes concludes the article by presenting a major proposal of her own to help break this chain of little girls becoming little women.

Hanes utilizes several rhetorical appeals. The dominant appeal is ethos which is the trustworthiness, credibility, or shared values of something.