This morning I got on the freeway directly behind a Ford Taurus sporting a hot pink Disney license plate cover that read, “Looking for…Prince Charming!”This got me thinking not only about how badly hot pink clashes with the rusted teal of Ford Taurus sedans (or about how anyone old enough to drive should be too old to sport Disney princesses anywhere on their personal belongings), but also about how unfitting that statement is for single women of America today.
Why? Because the 20-something women of today are not looking for Prince Charming. They are looking for Disney’s Bad Guy. They are tossing out Happily Ever After in favor of the full-sensory scrapes and bruises garnered in the Big Bad World. But the classic Disney movies were made in the days before pierced and tattooed Generation X, so they could not account for Princess 2006 and how her life would really turn out.
Princess 1950 knew she deserved to be treated like a princess and could fully expect Prince Charming to come sweep her off her feet and carry her off into the sunset on a white horse.
But Princess 2006 grew up in an Internet frenzied mish-mash of too much choice and not enough fairy dust.
She drives a sports car, goes clubbing with her girlfriends on the weekends, and has (gasp) premarital relations. Princess 2006 is not looking for you, Prince Charming--working in her office IT department and putting a nice deposit down on a fixer-upper in a residential neighborhood. This 20-something Princess likes the fast lane and she is quite happy getting all of the Trouble out of her system before she is locked into Cinderella’s life with a ring on her finger.
And Trouble comes in the form of a smoldering hunk of a man sporting 3-day stubble and a wrinkled Hanes t-shirt.
He is Prince Charming’s good-for-nothing cousin.
He most likely holds a couple of part-time jobs and prefers hitting the beach to Starbucks at 8 a.m. He knows he should open the door for you, but he just can’t seem to remember. And he would pick up the tab for dinner, but his wallet doesn’t fit in his board shorts. He is not your boyfriend because he is leaving his options open, and he’s leaving those options open with Snow White and Cinderella too.
And this is alright with Princess 2006? gasp the Disney execs. Is her Fairy Godmother M.I.A.?!
Well, for right now…yes. Because Trouble is exciting and fresh and fun and no frills. Trouble is edgy and hot and could stop traffic with his chiseled abs. But eventually, Princess 2006 will get tired of driving her own car and opening her own doors and dining in another joint with paper napkins and a drive-thru.
She will long for a moonlit ride in a pumpkin coach. And that Prince in IT has started to look, well, pretty Charming.
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Dear Hot Stuff,
It defies every law of nature and social order to think that a blonde hottie, such as yourself, would not have at least three Charmings on the hook. I blame Global Warming. It has resulted in too many princesses and not enough princes. Admittedly those other princesses are not as attractive or as together as you, but they create an assortment of diversions that slow down the prince's search for the ideal woman.... that would be you .... As you well know, guys are easily distracted. They may be on track to tell you that you are beutiful, funny. charming, and seductive, when all of a sudden there is a bar maid with exposed tattoos on her bosoms ... maybe one... maybe the other ... maybe both.. and then their focus is shot to hell.
So it seems to me that you have one of two choices: Fight the impulse to chase the stag that every other doe thinks is dreamy. In the end he will bore you in two days ... tops. Second option: Seek the herd accountant. Quiet, underappreciated, and under-stalked. He may turn out to be just as bland as he appears. Or he may be interesting.
Some guys have stubble just because they are too damn lazy to shave.
Love, Dear Abby
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