Sometimes
I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and
occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today I was
thinking about the sexualisation of cartoon characters.
Obviously this follows on from last month’s topic and yet again
Disney has to take the top spot on
this as not even its medieval maiden can escape unscathed. Despite
the fact that the whole ethos of Princess Merida is that she doesn’t
abide by conventions or focus/dwell on her appearance, prior to her
induction as an Official Disney Princess the powers that be decided
she needed a makeover. This was the result:
There
was a huge amount of uproar in reaction to this and the image was
hastily removed – an action of which Merida herself would no doubt
have approved.
But
it seems that it is not only Disney that is guilty of this as shown
by the new design of the Cadbury’s Caramel bunny which emerged in 2009 (before and after shown below)
Is
someone able to tell me what’s wrong with the old one? Because I’m
struggling
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