Beautiful, Kind and Friendless

After noting the absence of decent mother-daughter relationships among the canon of princess movies, I realized something else is missing - ordinary human friendships. Consider, after all, that the Disney princesses never look at each other or acknowledge each other's existence. It's not just that the heroines tend to develop bizarre relationships with animals (sometimes verbal and sometimes just vaguely anthropomorphic), it's that those are usually their only friendships.

( The lonely life of a fairy tale princess )