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Fetishizing the Disney Princesses

I recently saw this collection of portraits of the Disney princesses on Imgur. There are a lot of drawings like this where people take the Disney princesses and re-imagine them in lingerie. And I’m just like, really? It’s bad enough real life women get turned into sex-objects but can we just leave the Disney Princesses alone? Please? Can characters from our childhood just stay innocent and be the characters they were meant to be? Does Mulan, who was one of the first Disney female characters with drive and power, have to become a sexualized object? I mean come on! Jesus fucking Christ people. Is nothing sacred? And, yes, I see the irony in that previous comment but seriously, not every female character has to be over-sexualized. I know, I know “but they’re just fictional characters! Animations!” So what? Encouraging or even condoning re-imagining female characters into over-sexualized objects, even if they’re fictional or animations, sets the precedent that it’s okay to do that and that assumption then spreads to real women too. And the fact that the Disney princesses are figures that represent innocence and childhood make it extra bad and a little gross. Plus we all know that Disney is super sexist anyway with the early princesses so do you have to make it worse? Leave my childhood alone.