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10 Downsides Of
Creating A Plus-Size Disney Princess
- 1 day ago by Samantha Escobar
Apparently,
Virginia high school junior Jewel
Moore is petitioning for Disney
to create a plus-size Disney princess. As you all know, we here at The Gloss
are opposed to any form of change, particularly the progressive type. Let’s
take a look at some of the downsides that will come from a plus-size princess,
shall we?
1. They won’t fit in the dresses.
Disney creators
hand make every dress, you see, and they can only use one pattern. Like Karl Lagerfeld and Barbie‘s makers, they
have been designing one size so long, it would be borderline impossible to do
something different. As you know, professional artists are notoriously bad at
creating new things.
2. Little girls will gain weight as a result.
If you
recall your childhood, you will remember that literally the only messages
you saw regarding body image came from one movie? And then you based you entire
life on that movie and chose to change your entire appearance
based on that movie? Indeed, that is why I am still green and amphibious.
3. Bigger waist = bigger feet = no glass slippers.
Unfortunately,
shoes that could potentially sever your Achilles tendon if stepped on the wrong
way are not made in wide sizes.
4. Less room on the side for fuzzy sidekicks.
It’s
integral that you juxtapose females to giant furry animals to maintain the
image that the woman is tiny, hairless and itsy bitsy.
5. …And funny overweight sidekicks.
Chubby
people are for giggling at, not for cheering for! Unless you’re
cheering for them to fall down the palace’s steps, AMIRITE?
6. But then Prince Charming would have to be
“plus-size,” too.
Men don’t like plus-size women unless they’re “proportionate”! Just a
reminder: We don’t have special sizing sections for men who are overweight.
Only women.
7. People would empathize with the villain.
Human
beings don’t have any overweight friends, relatives, coworkers, partners, or
acquaintances that they like and relate to. Most people’s reactions to seeing
the average non-model is to hand them poison apples, steal their voices and
prick them with all kinds of cursed flowers.
Plus, the
Daily Mail will have to write about overweight people without putting
“see the before and after pics!!!” in its headlines. :(
8. Realism is bad!
9. If we promote being overweight as “normal,” more
kids will be overweight.
As you
all know, people emulate exactly what they see on television and in films. That
is why our society is made up exclusively of tall, thin, clear-skinned white
women with long, flowing hair. As a matter of fact, the average
American woman is 5’11″ and a size 2.
10. Kids would have somebody who resembles them to
look up to.
See, the
trouble with kids these days is that they’re not trying nearly hard enough to
look like human beings other than themselves. We need to ensure that they are
continuously bombarded with images of people whom they will likely never look
like, and make sure we photoshop those pictures so not even those
people can look like that. Otherwise, they will feel comfortable being
themselves–possibly even happy. And nothing is worse than happy, comfortable
children being themselves.
(Okay,
but in all seriousness: you go, Jewel Moore.)
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