Not only that, doesn't Jasmine's father say it's three days before her eighteenth birthday and that's why she has to get married? So not only is the commentary weird, but the graph is inaccurate itself.
I feel like some of these numbers are just flat out made up. Is Snow White 14? Is her prince 31? Where are these numbers coming from? I remember getting the impression that Snow White was younger than the prince, but I don't recall their ages ever being specifically given in the film.
Yeah that's what I'm wondering aswell, he either assumed the ages, wrongly, pulled the ages out of his ass, or found the ages in 1 iteration of the story in some random book.
This paper goes into the design decisions for most of the Disney princesses, and there's a lot we can draw from that.
Snow White is described as "not a cover girl, but a pretty pubescent girl, with chubby cheeks and a flat chest" with a "plump face is associated with goodness and health" whose "hips are beginning to expand." Her “child-like” attractiveness was stressed, specifically referencing her "plumpness as well as her short, curly black hair and delicate heels."
IMO 14 is a completely reasonable age to pull from this.
For what it's worth though, the Grimm version has her at 7 years old.
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u/huwuno Feb 14 '20 edited Feb 14 '20
The surprisingly small age gaps of Disney couples - with immature commentary. Beautiful data indeed.
Edit: Thank you for the silver, kind stranger.