The “princess treatment” TikTok dating trend has been making the rounds for the past year or so. It’s mostly been pretty harmless, consisting of women showing off the romantic things their partners do for them — buying them flowers, surprising them with a home-cooked meal or giving them their jacket when they’re cold.
Recently, though, one creator has been making a lot of noise online with her incredibly divisive videos about her specific version of the princess treatment. Courtney Palmer, who goes by @courtney_joelle on TikTok, has become known as “the princess treatment lady” in various (derogatory) comments and stitch responses to her original posts.
Though Palmer has been posting about the “princess treatment” for months, she went viral more recently for two specific videos — one where she shares she doesn’t tie her own shoelaces and waits for her husband to do so, and one where she explains that she doesn’t speak to waitstaff (or make eye contact?) when she’s at a restaurant with her husband. All of this, Palmer claims, is done in an attempt to be more “feminine” and let her husband be more “masculine” by contrast.
Predictably, the internet has had a strong reaction to Palmer’s claims: “It’s giving cult or hostage situation,” one user commented on her restaurant video. “Refusing to speak to, look at or aknowledge [sic] the hostess, server & others you encounter is just plain rude,” wrote someone else. “Do you bring home a take out box for Offred?” asked a third person, referencing ”The Handmaid’s Tale.”
