Anyone who says Sleeping Beauty isn’t one of the most progressive Disney movies obviously didn’t see it, because there’s nothing more progressive than a movie where the Golden Girls adopt a princess, raise her as their own, and then hire a hitman to save her.
It’s kind of sad that time has sort of forgot how great Flora, Fauna, and Meriweather were- largely due to their ugh portrayal in the Maleficent movie. These were three fairies who pretty much stopped their lives and their magic to raise a baby who they had only just met, and considering how Aurora turned out they seemed to have done a pretty good job!
And onto that part about the prince, yeah. Prince Philip was captured and helpless and they basically bust him out of prison and give him the goods to fight for them. Just because they didn’t do the fighting shouldn’t take away from the fact that he’d be done for without them.
Maybe someday these three will get a little more love!
