Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Disney's noted (but failed) attempt at real life representation

In Giroux's article about animated youth, he points out that Ariel from the Disney movie "The Little Mermaid" had the body posi of a Southern California Vogue model. He criticizes this representation of women by Disney as being detrimental to young girls and not reprenstative of how majority of women actually look. This buzzfeed post boasts about how Moana, a new edition to the Disney princess collection, has a more realistic body, but I disagree. Although she is bigger than the average vogue model, she isn't very realistic still. I'm waiting for the day when being plump or overweight is no longer associated with being the villain like Ursula in The Little Mermaid. I'm not saying tell kids being overweight is cool, but stop making being a princess/desirable synonymous with being slim.

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