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At least body images could be a bit more realistic. And seriously, they look great, I would say better. if they’re looking more like actual people, don’t they?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lorynbrantz/if-disney-princesses-had-realistic-waistlines
No, it’s not just Disney, as the latest advertising failure by Victoria’s Secret proves (they can’t tell me that ad was not photo edited – and it cracks me up, that a company like Dove reacted with a different image and call it “the perfect real body”). Sadly there are plenty of young women, and some young men, who believe that it is even possible to look like the princesses and princes, with harmful effects on their psych and often enough bodies. But I wish Disney would stop this sexualization of lead characters and show a more realistic body image.
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It really registers how ridiculous the actual waistlines are when you look at them all side by side and see how the more realistic ones look perfectly fine.
Animated characters are stylized…they aren’t *supposed* to look realistic.
Perhaps not. But they do present very young impressionable young girls with the idea of how they are “supposed” to look. And why are they not supposed to look realistic? What’s wrong with realism in this day and age if it help girls be more self confident in their own looks. Why not change the way things are “supposed” to be in order to foster positive body images and promote loving your body for what it is instead of what it is “supposed” to be?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Animated characters are stylized…they aren’t *supposed* to look realistic.
Okay, stylized, but why in this way, with wasp waist? Women used corsets to create such small waist in real life, paying a high prize with deformed rips, harmful effects on muscles, internal organs including their reproductive organs, increased risk of miscarriages and maternal death. Not to mention eating disorders. I don’t call that style or art but a damaging misconception of beauty. Princesses have to be fragile and petite, then even if those women are shown as kicking butt and smart, they still are physical vulnerable, appealing to protective instincts and not threatening masculinity.
Just a few days ago was Niki de Saint Phalle’s 84th birthday, she passed away a few years ago though. A wonderful, inspiring artist, whose women figures are famous, her Nanas are stylized women, but they are empowering, unlike these wasp waist Disney princess, who are only helping to enforce an unrealistic beauty image.
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Maybe the artists were trying to go for the hour glass figure, meaning that the waist would be smaller than the bust and hips. However, because the busts on the princesses are quite small (there would’ve been uproar if the princesses had big breasts) that led to the unfortunate side effect of the waists being small. Could the writers have gone for a bigger hourglass figure? Sure, but bigger means bigger breasts.
Barbie got criticised for big breasts and small feet yet she was a working woman. Is it actually society that is drawing attention to a woman’s body image rather than the actual artists themselves trying to make a statement about women’s beauty?
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Keeper of FelixWhy not change the way things are “supposed” to be in order to foster positive body images and promote loving your body for what it is instead of what it is “supposed” to be?
I agree. I’m just going to post this picture of a woman who was inspired by Jessica Rabbit and so wore a corset for 7 years straight and let you all just digest that:
like RG said, the Disney princesses are presented to a very young and impressionable girls who may look to them and feel they aren’t or cant be beautiful unless they have bodies like them. I am not saying that they way are drawn is wrong or that every princess should be plus size or anything, but they could show that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.*silently singing* I’m all about that bass, bout dat bass, no treble 😛
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