No girl should feel scared to be friends with other females. I was. I lived in fear of other girls. I remember saying, in seventh or eighth grade, “I only hang out with boys, because girls are really scary and mean.” …. But finding female friendship was such a monumental point in my life.
I remember when The Princess and the Frog came out, and there was a special about how Tiana was the first African-American Disney princess, and I was like, “What?! The first African-American princess?” I have, like, 12 princesses to choose from who look like me. I remember it being a shift. As a white person, I never had to think about representation because I always saw myself as a Disney princess. The thing about privilege is, oftentimes you don’t even have to think about the inequality when you don’t have to face it.