sample outline for advice from a princess

this post refers to two of the three videos from this series:

Their Argument(s): Movies like Beauty and the Beast and Snow White are about love conquering all, and how good will triumph. 

My Argument: Although they seem harmless on the surface, I argue that Disney movies like Beauty and the Beast and Snow White send harmful messages to young girls and reinforce negative cultural ideas about women.

Topics supporting my argument: (The movies...)

• Show women engaging in unsafe behavior
• Show women in abusive/oppressive situations
• Reinforce ideas about physical beauty being the only value women have.

Support for my topics:

• Unsafe situations: 
• Snow wandering around, going into strange houses, talking to strange women. 
• When she does these things, she seems to have no notion of how unsafe they are, and is incapable of rescuing herself.
• Abusive situations:
• Belle held captive by the Beast 
• He threatens to starve her
• He is violent and frightening. 
• (In Snow White she is forced to be the housekeeper in her own home, and then to a bunch of strange men.)
• Physical beauty: 
• B&TB is "about" how we should look past the surface
• But Belle is beautiful (the movie tells us repeatedly) 
• Her beauty is why Beast keeps her, and *then* he sees her kindness. For him, she sees his kindness first.
• Physical beauty 2: 
• Good looks "save" Snow.
• The huntsman who can't bring himself to kill her. 
• The dwarfs take her in. 
• The prince kisses her awake. 
• Beauty is so important to women it's worth killing over: the queen is so jealous of another women being prettier that she's willing to have her murdered over it.