![]() This game, however, does not bode well for Disney’s grown-up girls. ![]() In some ways, it’s a clever marketing racket, since 20-something women are the ones who grew up during the height of Disney’s princess culture, which is now a dying business thanks to Dreamworks’ cooler cartoons and, one can hope, some more progressive thinking on the gender-role front. The City Girl video game apparently attempts to bridge the gap between watching The Little Mermaid DVD on repeat and watching Sex and the City reruns, aiming to capture 20-something women interested in gaming. Memo to Disney: You know how you were spending a bunch of time and billions of dollars indoctrinating little girls into princess culture, and you took a bunch of heat for that? Well, this new game of yours, wherein you instead teach young women how to “climb the social ladder” by mimicking the worst of chick lit tropes, is not the right direction to move from there. ![]()
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