Twilight Sparkle, once a paragon of reading, math, and science, is sacrificed to a longstanding motif perpetuated by children's media - particularly Disney movies - where the female protagonist either is a princess or becomes one.Becoming a princess is the highest and most desirable level of achievement for the main character, unless she is already a princess, in which case she can become worthy by finding a male she loves and marrying him after some ridiculously arduous trial and/or opposition from her family. (See also: Cadence.)
I’m going back to my Rainbow Dash corner, where everything is
awe~some. From there I'll be happily watching the last episodes of the season, even if they happen to play into the damned princess curse.
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A couple edits:
No, I do not think becoming a princess will change Twilight's personality or good qualities. My issue is more that she is becoming a "princess," something that is unattainable for most people. This is the role girls are expected to have access to.
Despite that, I still enjoy stories about royalty. They don't need to be banished. That's silly.
I posted this before the episode aired for a reason, and that was this might only be valid before it plays. (I'd love to look like an idiot and be wrong. The guessing game is part of the fun!) Nonetheless, the promotions claim that being a princess is Twilight's "destiny." If you consider how the media constructs gender identities beyond what happens in the final product, I still have a viable critique.
And of course most of this applies to people who are considered white in the United States. The dynamics of non-white princesses are different. 
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If parents are truly raising their children like they should they will know some things are only fantasy.
Dreams, even if impossible in the real world should be encouraged.
If those watching the show have watched every episode they should understand they can be whatever they wants, that the can be great no matter who they are.
Destiny is misunderstood in western culture, and is not some straight jacket that takes away peoples choice to live the life they want but a means of showing one's potential. One's destiny is a possibility of greatness, one what are lives can lead to. Destiny is a guide, a possibly, of what we could be if he are willing to take the path shown and work for it.
Princesses have gone into the realms of fantasy, of fiction, especially in the USA just as many other things have become such... when children grow up they will learn that what they may have dreamed as being cannot be real.
But that's not what happened, now, was it?
And I meant that the logic that concludes Twilight deserves to be a princess, if you think about it, also extends to the other five.