There are a number of times when a Prince has kissed the female heroine in a Disney movie without her consent, but because it's in the name of 'true love', it's completely overlooked. Encouraged, in fact. Hey, Walt, consent isn't a challenge, it's mandatory, and it should be agreed by both parties. So why are all of these girls being kissed by these men without their permission? Now admittedly, they do save the day, but what if they weren't their true love and they're all just getting cold, unresponsive freebies? And what sort of generation of Princes think that this is the ideal situation to kiss someone? In Snow White, the heroine is kissed by her Prince who finds her in a glass coffin. A coffin. Not only is she kissed in her death like state, but she's then taken away to his castle in the distance as a sort of prize, and her true friends - the dwarves - aren't even thanked for being such good friends for looking after her. Snow White now has to the spend the rest of her life knowing that her Prince had no idea that a kiss was the only way the curse could be lifted, but that he did it anyway for a frisk. A similar story is true in Beauty And The Beast between Lumière and Fife where she repeatedly says 'no' and he responds with 'yes'. No means no Lumière, and it's even worse that she says, "I've been burned by you before." Love is supposed to make you do stupid things, not turn you into a bit of a sex pest. Of course, the most obvious example is from Sleeping Beauty who will remain in her deep slumber until she has experienced true love's first, non consensual kiss. It's not as romantic when you think about it that way, is it?
