A quote has been making the rounds on Tumblr recently, from a WSJ interview with Geena Davis. Here's a big chunk of quote for you:

We raised some money, and we ended up doing the largest research study ever done on G-rated movies and television shows made for kids 11 and under. And the results were stunning.
 
What we found was that in G-rated movies, for every one female character, there were three male characters. If it was a group scene, it would change to five to one, male to female.
Of the female characters that existed, the majority are highly stereotyped and/or hypersexualized. To me, the most disturbing thing was that the female characters in G-rated movies wear the same amount of sexually revealing clothing as the female characters in R-rated movies.

And then we looked at aspirations and occupations and things like that. Pretty much the only aspiration for female characters was finding romance, whereas there are practically no male characters whose ultimate goal is finding romance. The No. 1 occupation was royalty. Nice gig, if you can get it. And we found that the majority of female characters in animated movies have a body type that can't exist in real life. So, the question you can think of from all this is: What message are we sending to kids?

I was never a princess. A lot of girls never were. We know; we can -see- the princesses, and we know we aren't like them. We don't wait around longing for romance and hoping to be rescued. We don't have the infinitely patient and relentlessly optimistic demeanor to sing to birds and rodents to do our chores for us. We aren't slender and pretty and graceful. If you take off our glasses and put us in pretty dresses, we still look like the same person; we aren't magically transformed into the beautiful girls we were all along.

So... if we aren't the princess, and we aren't the handsome prince (we have no interest in rescuing the princess either)--what role in the fable does that leave for us? The dragon. The beautiful, powerful, not-waiting-for-rescue dragon. The dragon, who steals the princess and... doesn't hold her captive, no. Eats her, more likely. And then when the prince comes to rescue her... eats the prince, as well.

That's not the Disney ending, though. In pretty much every version of that fable, we, the dragon girls, end up dead, and the pretty pretty princess gets her happily ever after ending. This might make us a little bitter. Which reinforces the anger of the dragon.

I'd much rather be the dragon anyway. Stupid princesses.