Upvoted. My thoughts on Brave are over here, but basically Merida is actually a really dark character, and it's sort of sickening that she gets away with everything she does.

Interesting enough to repeat is my suggestion for a better setting:

Consider another movie they could have made, Paisley, about a Scottish girl on the cusp of womanhood who gets a job in one of the first textile mills and is able to support herself and live independently through hard work. This story has the supreme virtue of having actually happened: arranged marriage was not done away with because a preteen girl complained that she wasn't ready, it was done away with because people got richer and could afford something better.

Of course, it's difficult to make a movie glorifying sweatshop labor, whereas princesses are distant enough to be a tame example.