Disney Princess Merida makeover: A 7-year-old’s outcome on a ‘Brave’ heroine
3 views - published on May 14th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldThe newest, many feminist-forward Disney princess, Merida of a charcterised film “Brave” asks, “If we had a possibility to change your fate, would you?”
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Disney corporate answered with a resounding “No!” when it stranded to gender-typed tradition and converted a disheveled, feisty, normally-proportioned, separate archer to a slimmer, glitzy, doe-eyed version, sparking a petition by angry fans.
Worse, it unhappy a corpulent small red-haired lady we babysit for since it put her princess dream behind out of reach.
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Merida was crowned as Disney’s 11th central princess final Thursday at Disney World. Sadly, it wasn’t a smart-alecky Scottish lassie who won her possess leisure with archery and willpower who took a theatre during a coronation. Instead Disney selling missed a aim again where a good of small girls is endangered and sexed-up a impression with some-more disruption and a empty look.
“Yuck!” squeaked Laurel when her baby blue eyes saw a corresponding before and after versions of Merida on my mechanism this morning. Laurel, who is 7 and has wavy splendid red hair, likes to float during my right shoulder like a ditzy small angel in a mornings since we blogged about her and she’s always on a surveillance to see her possess face on my screen.
“Yuck?” we responded. “Which one’s a one we like?”
A corpulent small finger went to a aged Merida. So we asked her why, and she responded with what, for Laurel, is a super cohesive answer: “The one in dim blue is smiling and her hair’s prettier ’cause it’s some-more like cave and ’cause a new one’s scary-pretty with all that blowy hair and cat-eyes. The new one looks meant and we don’t know her.”
Then she done my day and my blog by indicating behind to a make-over Merida and asking, “Is that a Evil Merida?”
It took overwhelming patience not to say, “Yes! Behold a demon Disney parent that is a slimmer, girlier, and some-more stereotypical chronicle wrought in a cauldron of marketing’s unwholesome spell.”
Instead we simply explained that Disney had given her a make-over. To that Laurel simply replied, “Oh. That’s too bad.”
For those, like me, who determine with Laurel’s comment of a Disney-engineered repairs to how girls perspective themselves and their destiny roles as women there is a petition “Disney: Say No to a Merida Makeover, Keep Our Hero Brave!” It’s online during Change.org
The petition, combined by a webmasters during A Mighty Girl reads in part: “The redesign of Merida in allege of her central initiation to a Disney Princess collection does a extensive harm to a millions of children for whom Merida is an lenient purpose indication who speaks to girls’ ability to be change agents in a universe rather than only trophies to be admired. Moreover, by creation her skinnier, sexier and some-more mature in appearance, we are promulgation a summary to girls that a original, realistic, teenage-appearing chronicle of Merida is inferior; that for girls and women to have value — to be famous as loyal princesses — they contingency heed to a slight clarification of beauty.”