But while I'm not convinced that pinkification and princessification is the same as sexualisation and pornification, I do think the stereotyped rhetoric accompanying the pink-quake is A Real Worry.
There are two reasons my feelings towards Disney are slightly frosty. First, I cannot stand the princessification (no, it’s not a word but it should be) of girls’ childhoods that has happened over the past couple of decades, something for which it is largely responsible.
The bordering-on-sick fascination shows itself in nearly every aspect of life from the pink and royal purple princessification of Lego brick sets to the way we exalt or condemn people in the news.
1844, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, The Birthright, and Other Tales, Volume II, Henry Colburn (1844), page 297:
[…] and a few more, of the Bloomsbury and Baker Street class, agitate themselves to hysterics in hunting up the crowned heads, incog, and getting up an intimacy with some Russian princess, who turns out, in the sequel, to be an opera-singer from Berlin or Dresden, of temporary princessification.