Artists on the web are reimagining Disney princesses — those surreal creatures of so-called human perfection — from casting them as porn stars to portraying them with disabilities. As satires on the global power of Disney go, these efforts are some way behind South Park's characterisation of Mickey Mouse as a violent corporate crime lord. However, the compulsion some people feel to alter Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and the rest is only natural. Disney has become the world's most pervasive propagandist for oppressive myths of gender. Its "princesses" are brainless slender-waisted mannequins that little girls all over the world are being offered as an ideal. Disney's promotion of cliched femininity is one of the most regressive aspects of today's popular culture.