Artist Puts Disney Princess Filter On 10 Real Life Female Role Models

[LadyHawkAZ]

http://www.womenyoushouldknow.net/flatten-heroine-artist-puts-disney-princess-filter-10-real-life-female-role-models/

“This was a response to the furor kicked up over the glossy ‘princessification’ of Pixar’s Merida character, both in image and doll form. I drew this picture because I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

“My experience of female role models both in culture and in life has shown me that there is no mold for what makes someone a role model, and the whole point of Merida was that she was a step in the right direction, providing girls with an alternative kind of princess. Then they took two steps back, and painted her with the same glossy brush as the rest. So I decided to take 10 real-life female role models, from diverse experiences and backgrounds, and filter them through the Disney princess assembly line."

[Mnemosyne]

1. I love that he included Malala! K&R nt

[AnneD]

2. Totally cool.....

Disney...take notes.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I'd like somebody to do that with a picture of me! LOL!

[AtheistCrusader]

4. The titles could use some work.

Contrast Malala and Ann. 'Defiant Princess' vs. 'Holocaust Princess'...

The latter doesn't quite have the right ring to it...

The art is good interpretation of the physical/style characteristics of the people though. There were only two I couldn't guess before scrolling down.

[LadyHawkAZ]

5. The artwork was made as a protest

so I think he picked titles that went with the spirit of what he was doing.

It is a fantastic piece of art though.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. It is.

I realize it is an objection, rather than supporting the idea. But I think he captured at least, what I think of Hillary's optimism quite well.

Through all the absurd, vile nonsense so many people in this country have thrown her way, that is how I think of her attitude; positive.

[LadyHawkAZ]

7. I gotta admit,

I absolutely love the Steinem. She looks straight out of Scooby Doo.

[Demoiselle]

10. I had a hard time with "Holocaust Princess.

Which was probably the artist's intent, actually.

[marble falls]

11. Me, too. Lots of problems. It trivializes her in a very troublng way. I think the intent whatever ..

it was, was shallow and not thought out very well.

[Treant]

13. Trivialization was the point

He's reduced these powerful, dynamic, intelligent, and very outspoken women into these flat, wasp-waisted, busty, oversimplified figures.

The point he's trying to make is that there's so much more to women (and men) than being a Disney Prince(ss).

[marble falls]

14. But the Holocaust. Ann Frank? Its the only one I have problems with.

[jmowreader]

8. I wonder what Disney calls Merida in overseas markets

People get outraged over the glamour picture of Merida, but I wonder why no one told these assholes at the studio that Merida sounds just like the French and Italian words for "shit."

[MrModerate]

9. This creeps me out, as I suspect the artists wanted . . . n/t

[radhika]

12. Spot On! Talented guy...kudos n/t

[REP]

15. I've seen this elsewhere - surprised how few 'get it'

I think they're hilarious - even 'Holocaust Princess' - because it's just the kind of sparkly dehumanizing trivialization Disney does of women (and Disney was an anti-Semite).