Well...what is surprising to me is how Disney has gotten away with selling sex to kids for so long. I'll specifically talk about provocative characters in a current Disney cartoon that I watch. Wait...I can't say that I actually watch it-I've noticed it on the TV early Saturday mornings while I'm cursed with some reason to be awake at that point.
What I did notice though was the scantily-clad fairies that make up the cast of this cartoon. I'm talking about the Winx Club. Enter Bloom, Flora, Layla, Musa, Stella and Tecna.
I don't get the names and I don't care but I have to admit I did quite a bit of research on them specifically for this blog (time that I will never get back). What I want to point out, other than the fact that they are most obviously teenage fairies, is that this cartoon is supposed to be geared towards 4-14 year old girls. Hmmm...ok-a fairy cartoon...awww...cute.
Scratch the 'cute' thing.
Hot,
Sexy,
Lithe,
Victoria Secret Catalog and Maxim-cover worthy,
Vixens.
Another day at Disney.
That's gotta be a shock to anyone's ego-aren't they impossibly beautiful and skinny? Yeah, it's Barbie...only more seductive.
Hey....is that ink stain giving me bedroom eyes?
Do you know what's more disturbing than the fact that these are the role models of our young girls? THEY HAVE BOYFRIENDS!!! And, yes, this irks me to no end because their guys are unbelievably, Abercrombie and Fitch, Dr. McDreamy STEAMY! And me, being human...doesn't have one. Psh...
Meet Sky. And Brandon.
Now that I feel like crap about Disney, my love life, my self image, my wardrobe and my job (come on-you know being a fairy has got to be awesome)...I'll just go cry...to my girlfriends.
Notice any convenient hand-placements in this pic? Yeah, me neither. ;)
Ok, I'm done with this post....sorry for making you suffer. It'll probably happen again though. Sorry. :(
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Apparently I need to start watching morning cartoons again... Oh wait, you are trying to say this is a bad thing... Ummmmm, I'm totally offended and in protest will drink myself silly every Friday night so that I am forced to sleep in each Saturday morning, and never wake up early enough to watch sexy cartoon characters.
How would that Friday night be any different from others?
Oh wait...that's me.
And don't worry about me-I'm really not the feminist/activist kind that would ban this from my TV.
I have to admit I have a thing for The Monarch. Rawr.
lol
Are you sure your not watching cartoon porn?
On Fox? Yeah, probably.
Winx Club is actually Italian, and in Italy the age of consent is 14 (IIRC), so to them there's really nothing wrong with characters aged 16+ (which they are) being portrayed in a slightly sexual nature, given where the shows from.
Also, I don't think it teaches kids anything bad - Bratz, Barbie, Cindy ect have been doing it for years.
This show isn't on Disney, it's on Nickelodeon...
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