Hey, Let’s Stop Putting Beloved Characters On Starvation Diets

Over on our sister site, The Gloss, there's a series of images that Barneys commissioned for the holiday season, in which adored Disney characters like Minnie Mouse have been turned into "runway models." Translation: they have been stretched within an inch of their cartoon lives, and, it seems, given an eating disorder. If this seems familiar, it's because it just happened to*Ursula the Sea Witch. A few years before that, it happened Strawberry Shortcake. But why? Why does every character need to slenderized and sexualized, just to be modernized? And, more importantly, can we collectively agree to knock it off? More »Post from: Blisstree