Stop pretending Tangledâs âafter years of askingâ line was deep. It was a joke.
Yes, a joke. You knowâhumor? The same writers made Tangled Ever After, and the flower girls who braided Rapunzelâs hair havenât aged a day. So no, she didnât spend years âfinding herselfâ before marriage. Yâall just took a quirky line and twisted it into a whole fake narrative. đ
Meanwhile, everyoneâs out here defending this âmodern, empoweredâ Rapunzel and dragging the older princesses like Cinderella, Ariel, and Auroraâfor what? Marrying in a time where THAT WAS THE ONLY OPTION?? In their eras, you couldnât just "date" or "live together." Marriage was the only way two people could even be together.
People keep telling me, âRapunzel couldnât have said yes right away, she was too traumatized!â Uh, yeah? So was the original Rapunzel. She was literally locked in a tower and abused. And she still said yes to the prince's proposal. Because you know what? Back then, people were terrified of out-of-wedlock pregnancy. THAT WAS THE ACTUAL PLOT of the original story!!!
Why act like traumatized people canât say yes to love? Why act like a woman needs to see the world before marriageâwhen she could still see the world while being married?
Marriage. Wasnât. A. Prison. Especially not in a time where couples were married off at 16 and unmarried women had zero autonomy.
So why the revisionism? Why pretend discrimination never existed? Why erase the original story, culture, and historical reality just to push a modern narrative that directly contradicts the actual meaning of the tale?
If you want to write a commitment-phobic modern princess who panics at a proposalâcool. Make a new character. Donât slap the name Rapunzel on it and act like thatâs somehow faithful. đ


















