β...Nowadays the princesses all know kung fu, and yet theyβre still the same princesses. They're still love interests, still the one girl in a team of five boys, and theyβre all kind of the same. They march on screen, punch someone to show how they donβt take no shit, throw around a couple of one-liners or forcibly kiss someone because getting consent is for wimps, and then with ladylike discretion they back out of the narrativeβs way.β



















