The Pretty Woman Myth/ Cinderella Complex

When asked to come up with just one example of the Cinderella Complex (the idea of a man sweeping a woman off of her awaiting feet and living happily ever after), I found it hard to narrow it down to just one I wanted to discuss. I at first thought about the game I used to love to play when I was little, it involved a board that had all young mens faces on it and cards that had their fake telephone numbers.

 All game you would attempt to successfully make your dream guy fall in love with you. This was a normal saturday evening, trying desperately to make fake men fall in love with me on a fake cell phone. So it all starts as little children, but progressively gets worse as we age. I can only think of the reality show the Bachelor (and there are others, Rock of Love, Flava Flav, etc). 

These shows get girls to come on reality television, flaunt around their assests, go after the same man as 25 other woman want, and then when kicked off, have an emotional breakdown because the man did not chose them. I almost appreciate the naughtier versions like Rock of Love more because those girls at least know what they are doing and almost seem to be playing the game right back.

 Bachelor though is serious, woman actually want to fall in love, and think it is necessary to share their "love" with 25 other woman. They are wined and dined in fairytale circumstances, for what seems to be the white knight sweeping them from their fragile feet. Yet this is Hollywood, where dreams come true, and than once no one cares anymore and you aren't whisking off to Paris every weekend, all falls apart. It is just an interesting concept for a feminist to approach because while i disapprove, I think that all women need to have their own dream, and I can't hate these women for dreaming what every little girl must have dreamed, but just carrying it through to their adult years.