Tangled - How Girls Get Gaslit

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Tangled - How Girls Get Gaslit

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Jan 20, 2022

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In Tangled, Rapunzel’s mental imprisonment and her desire to take the agency to see the world herself speak generally to how young girls need to free themselves from damaging longstanding cultural myths.

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Jan 20, 2022

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Tangled - How Girls Get Gaslit

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