MY LATEST... Last week, cartoonist, David Trumble, got renewed attention over his sketches of 10 famous women in history as Disney princesses. The princessified images of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie and Rosa Parks, among others, were first unveiled in a May 2013 Huff Post article. Trumble has said he created the satirical images in response to uproar of the “princessification” of young girls after Disney updated the Pixar cartoon character Merida from the movie Brave to be prettier. Trumble said he wanted to show that there was no need to give all the princesses the same doughy eyed, wide mouthed and big buxom look, neither have all of them the same size and wearing the same glittery dresses. Why do we need to turn them into princesses in the first place to prove this point? The images from Trumble’s Spring’s release are getting a second life and being circulated again this fall, and more widely in social media. Only this time, they aren’t always attached to Trumble’s initial satirical commentary. When he first released the sketches, next to each image was a criticism by Trumble of how society downplays the feats for which the woman portrayed are most noteworthy, and instead steers girls to focus on their outward appearance and the sparkle in their dress. “Princess Susan B. Anthony! Being a suffragette doesn’t mean she can’t look her best,” he jabbed. Of Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year old girl shot by the Taliban for advocating for the education of girls, he poked, “She risked all for what she believed in, for education and equality for young girls everywhere! But never mind that…look! Sparkles!” But all of that snark has lost its way in our social media world of sharing. Now, most people seeing the Rosa Parks figure, for example, all prissyed up in a debutante dress are oohing and aaahing at how pretty she looks. They are proud, and applauding the sight of this noteworthy woman being turned into a princess, and in the process, totally missing the point.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:06:09 +0000
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