10 Downsides Of Creating A Plus-Size Disney Princess

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 your 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!

That’s why people only like unrealistic movies like Waterworld, John Carter and Gigli.

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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