You know, that new Disney Movie, MOANA? It made my day, week, month, LIFE (!!!), and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
Isn’t she bad-ass? I mean, really, how bad do I want to be this girl?
My jealousy over the girls today who get to grow up with this as their new Disney princess… I’m green as Kermit.
Granted, as a girl, I didn’t know I was supposed to want to be a Disney princess. I was too busy dressing up as Peter Pan, Robin Hood and the Ninja Turtles. I was, as they say, a Tom-boy, and I give thanks daily to my mother who let me be the girl I wanted to be.
When I complained about hating girls’ jeans as a child (they were too tight and uncomfortable, you know in the ’90s? Before we were all wearing stretchy pants), my mother said, “Ok,” and took me to the boys department. I spent half my childhood in boys’ jeans that were baggy in all the right places so I could run, jump and play without any hindrance. I genuinely wished I could be a boy, not because I felt like one, but because their lives seemed like so much more fun to me.
Now, if Moana had been around when I was a kid…
You better believe, I would’ve been this chick for Halloween. For probably three years in a row, until I discovered Rey from FORCE AWAKENS, and I moved on to a light saber instead of a paddle. It makes me wonder if I would’ve been proud to wear a skirt as a kid.
And don’t even get me started about her hair! The curls! Maybe I wouldn’t have needed to spend countless hours straightening mine in middle school (until I finally accepted that it was okay to have curly hair) if Moana had been around.
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Moana is a sailor. A wayfinder. When I saw her get on that boat in the movie— my heart stopped. I swear it was a manifestation, as though my child self wished Moana into existence.
I had a sailboat like that as a kid – a two hauled hoby cat that you can hang off the side and fly in the wind. Well, it wasn’t really mine. It was my dad’s – that he never really taught me to captain. I was his perpetual first mate. And I always knew, if I’d been a boy, he would’ve taught me.
If Moana had been around, I would’ve cried, hollered and begged until my dad taught me how to sail it. And it might’ve worked. I don’t know.
The sailboat is mine now. My dad gave it to me years ago. But the funny part is, my husband is a sailor, so I have remained stuck in the perpetual first mate role, sitting back while he captains it (albeit as a more equal partner than with my dad). My husband has tried to get me to captain it myself, but I’ve always resisted. Something about feeling like I shouldn’t be in charge gets in my way.
Thanks to Moana though – I think this summer I’ll be changing that. I guess, even though I would’ve loved having her around as a kid, at least she’s here now!
