I have two friends that are smart, funny, beautiful women who I must say have had some of the worst luck when it comes to boyfriends. As they continued to list the countless stories of past boyfriends I started to wonder how they didn't have their Prince Charmings already. You know that myth that girls foolishly hope for? He's that guy that never says anything wrong, always loves you, and not that it should matter but he is unbelievably hot.
This made me think of the original Prince Charming from Disney's Cinderella. After thinking about it for a while I realized that Prince Charming isn't so great. Sure he saves Cinderella from her evil stepmother and stepsisters, and okay yeah he did only flirt with her at the ball. But I mean think about it. He sees a girl and she's beautiful and it's love at first sight. He dances with, talks to, and looks at only her the whole night. Yet he never thinks to ask her what her name is. Then when she leaves in a hurry and forgets her very rare glass slipper at the castle he keeps it. Then he comes up with a plan that only a men would find clever. He decides to have every woman in the entire kingdom try on this glass slipper and whoever it fits first is the woman he's supposed to be with. Then even though he is most likely the only person who saw her face and knows her voice -and oh yeah he's "in love" with her- he sends someone else to do it for him. Because he's just too busy doing nothing to go and find his true love.
Now I want to be clear on one thing I am now and forever will be a hopeless romantic. I'm all for that love at first sight, soul mates, together forever stuff. I just don't understand why we decided what Prince Charming did was anywhere near perfect or worth all the credit we give him. I think Prince Charming is pathetic and that women need to raise the bar just a little bit higher. I mean look at sleeping beauty's man Prince Philip. He faught an evil dragon for her. Prince Eric faught a huge octopus for Ariel and this was after he found out he was in love with a fish. Then there is the beast, -who didn't even get a real name- he risked his own life and saved Belle from scary wolves before he even really liked her.
Honestly I just wanted to say that I don't need a man that can fight evil dragons, huge octopuses, or scary wolves. I just want a man that would care enough to find me on his own instead of just sending someone to take care of it for him. Until then I think I'll find someone else other then so-called Prince Charming to wait for.
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You know, I never thought of it that way. Then again, this is just one version of the Cinderella story. And I think she was reluctant to give him her name in this story (not that, as you said, he actually asked for it), because if she told him her name it could get back to her step-mother/sisters, and she'd be in serious doo-doo.
I like to go by the Ever After version, where he actually knows her, but she gives a false name.
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