ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REIGN?

      When you're little you dream about being a princess and about someday meeting Prince Charming, who will whisk you away from a life of misery to one of intrigue and grandeur. This does happen for a few women, and for even less they actually get the opportunity to be the Queen themselves. While this sort of self- empowerment of freeing oneself from a life of female enslavement is something that to some extent is available to all women, there's very few who will ever get the opportunity on such a grand scale.

        Those women who find themselves in positions of power are usually also engulfed in tragedy. This might make for good TV as this preview for a new show called Reign illustrates, which follows the life of a young Mary Queen of Scots, but might not appear to be as much fun when it translates into your everyday life. I seem to know more about this than I would often like to, and decided to write about it on my other blog site.

http://www.courtney-nicole.com/

        I also wanted to add this super great article I just read on Feminspire, which is all about Girl Characters in the world of animation who are embracing a form of power which we usually don't see displayed. That is that being a girl and being feminine and using your feminine energy will end up translating into a limitless supply of power for yourself. Usually, you have to either become a boy, or embrace what's seen as masculine energy in order to be in charge. This new message to girls is: being you is powerful.

"And there is that all-important message again: simply because you are a young woman, it does not mean that you are weak. You have the potential to be powerful and you and your peers do not have to sit back and be the squealing, swooning victims in any system, not in spite of but because you’re a girl. You can go kick your evil oppressors in the chest with your pink ribbon-tied shoes, blast them with your flowery wand, and use the power of your unshakeable bonds of friendship to shoot the bastards out of your lives and into oblivion."

http://feminspire.com/magical-girls-trope-using-femininity-friendship-to-battle-evil/