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Princesses are everywhere: under the tree at Christmas and on the sidewalks at Halloween, atop birthday cakes and in videogames, on bedspreads and in perfume ads. They provide themes  Terani Dress  for baby showers, quinceaneras, even weddings. The phrase "every girl dreams of being a princess" generates more than 300,000 Google matches, only a few of which concern Kate Middleton's impending marriage to Britain's Prince William.

"Princess" is not just a royal title. It's a powerful, and popular, ideal.
When the Los Angeles Times recently reported that Disney was swearing off new animated princess films, the fan outcry was so great that Pixar Animation chief Ed Catmull quickly issued a retraction on Facebook, vaguely promising great stuff to come. Prom Dresses 2011 it turns out to be the last or merely the latest Disney princess movie, "Tangled," which opened Nov. 24, is an indisputable hit. Going into this weekend, the retelling of "Rapunzel" had rung up nearly $194 million in world-wide ticket sales.

Yet among today's educated urbanites, "princess culture" is the subject of raging debate. What some parents consider innocent make-believe, others deem character-eroding indoctrination. Calling your daughter a princess fosters "a sense of entitlement and undeserved  sexy prom dress superiority," declares one mother, commenting on a CafeMom post called, "Is the Princess Fantasy Dangerous?" Others fear that princess stories teach girls to be pretty and helpless, waiting for a Bridesmaid Dresses to rescue them instead of acting on their own behalf. Should liberated women let their daughters play Cinderella? It's a topic with which mommy blogs never seem to tire.