Instead I simply explained that Disney had given her a make-over. It took Herculean restraint not to say, “Yes! Behold the demon Disney spawn that is a slimmer, girlier, and more stereotypical version wrought in the cauldron of marketing’s poisonous spell.” Then she made my day and my blog by pointing back to the make-over Merida and asking, “Is that the Evil Merida?” The new one looks mean and I don’t know her.” So I asked her why, and she responded with what, for Laurel, is a super cohesive answer: “The one in dark blue is smiling and her hair’s prettier 'cause it’s more like mine and 'cause the new one’s scary-pretty with all that blowy hair and cat-eyes. “Which one’s the one you like?”Ī chunky little finger went to the old Merida. The new swing vote: Why more Latino voters are joining the GOP Laurel, who is 7 and has wavy bright red hair, likes to hover at my right shoulder like a ditzy little angel in the mornings because I blogged about her and she’s always on the lookout to see her own face on my screen. “Yuck!” squeaked Laurel when her baby blue eyes saw the side-by-side before and after versions of Merida on my computer this morning.
Instead Disney marketing missed the target again where the good of little girls is concerned and sexed-up the character with more cleavage and a vapid look. Sadly, it wasn’t the sassy Scottish lassie who won her own freedom with archery and willpower who took the stage at the coronation.
Merida was crowned as Disney’s 11th official princess last Thursday at Disney World. Worse, it disappointed a chunky little red-haired girl I babysit for because it put her princess dream back out of reach. The newest, most feminist-forward Disney princess, Merida of the animated film " Brave" asks, “If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?”ĭisney corporate answered with a resounding “No!” when it stuck to gender-typed tradition and converted the disheveled, feisty, normally-proportioned, self-reliant archer to a slimmer, glitzy, doe-eyed version, sparking a petition by outraged fans.
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