ok so i gotta say the other day was a post about a mama bein upset about sit. with a bio dad givin toys all the time to their daughter.... in this was a jab at tinkerbell and i just have to say as against the whole disney mass market/market to our kids thing as i am tinkerbell is at least kind of a feminist version for disney? she is a tinker fairy after all not some makeup fairy or dancing fairy or whatever and she is the only disney female not obsessed with/focused on finding her damn prince an bein in love and alla that so anyway i just needed to point that out. :p go tinkerbell!
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and Tinkerbell has
major, real-woman CURVES. Always liked that about her.
Glamorous
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley
I always used to go for the
I always used to go for the tinkerbell stickers at work to give out to kids when they requested princesses (just for your reasoning, Denessasma!), but then I looked at them one day and tinkerbell was in all sorts of sexy poses. Curves, indeed. If she weren't a cartoon she's be X-rated. I still prefer her over the other princesses, but for preschoolers I'm stuck with care bears and dora now so that I don't have to worry about spoiling their innocence. I like to think they're still innocent at least...
tinkerbell always rubbed me the wrong way
Didn't she try to kill Wendy because she was jealous about Wendy getting too close to Peter Pan?
they dont even refer to the
they dont even refer to the "old" tinkerbell hmmmmm good point tho
Jessica
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~~Dr.Seuss
but....
They turned her INTO a make-up/dancing fairy! From what I see, Tinkerbell gets marketed as the sassy "anti-princess" for the purpose of cornering another market, or another "type" of girl. They gave her this makeover a few years back and Bratz-ified her and...it's all just Disney marketing garbage desgined to hook young girls into being loyal early to their "brand" in any way they can, like taking a random side character and turning her into what they envision as a pouty-lipped-fake-girl-power empire.
Licensed characters in general bug me. I resent how they're forced on us everywhere we turn, and how hard it can be to steer kids clear from them if you don't feel great about them. Even female characters that I like strongly, like Ponyo and Lola from Charlie and Lola, get turned into lunchboxes and lipglosses eventually, and it just bums me out. Watch, any day now Disney or some other megacorp will re-descover my all time fave, Pippi Longstocking, and give her a make-over and turn into a re-headed anti-princess and throw her on lunchboxes that say "sassy" and then...well, I'll probably cry.
Christ, I'm super soap boxy tonight. Apologies!!! Anyway, my personal issue with Tink and any other character isn't anything I hold against anyone else, it's just a pet peeve and something I got real ornery about when I became mother to a little girl. I don't want her to be someone's target audience for some stereotyped character or product, you know? It's unavoidable, it'll happen (does alreay), but that doesn't mean I've gotta like it!
Why not avoid branded
Why not avoid branded characters altogether? Are there stickers you can give out that just have pictures on them, not necessarily of cartoon characters?
"Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth." -Buddha
This blog and it's comments
This blog and it's comments just gave me an idea for a podcast. I've been wanting to do one since Sexy Husband and I stopped doing our world of warcraft podcast. Would anyone listen to a feminist mama podcast? We could talk about things like Tinkerbell and Bratz.
"Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth." -Buddha
duuuude,
I would love that. A round table discussion about all things hip mama, especially the commercial aspect of raising kids. Wish we could all meet like once a month for a bitch session.
Which reminds me, actually, have you ever listened to the Bitch Media podcasts? They're goooooood stuff. I bet you'd enjoy it.