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Put our service to the test, madam. We are here to serve you, since you obviously can't do anything on your own except look good.
Without Beauty, there'd be no movie. Who cares about the Beast really (but even he turns beautiful in the end)? If the roles were reversed and he were teh Beauty and she an ugly hag, well, it's hard to imagine that simply because women are not meant to be ugly, it's not acceptable and they can never be loved as such. Men on the other hand, well, they are perfect any way they come, right ladies?
Disney is fixated on this principal that "heroines" - those girls who just get rescued by a prince - must be beautiful, no matter what status of life they live or what they do on an average basis. They never outcome poverty, find the cure for AIDS, or even punch the evil witch; they all just run away, hands in the air, and hope that their Prince will save them.
Belle was a little different, just because she seemed to have some sense of a brain, but overall, she fit the model just fine.
As soon as a good movie - and by good, I mean a man waiting and wishing for his princess charming to come along and save him from his evil step-father/witch/blah blah blah - comes out, give me a call.