Flawlessly Brave

So here's the thing about me: I will never meet you on time, but I'll be there eventually. I won't finish that assignment when I promised I would, but I will finish it at some point. So, I may say I'm going to write MWF and not follow through, but I will write that post eventually. I was distracted on Friday. I had a date with Delilah and a vampire. :[

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Have you heard about the Disney Pixar movie Brave? With the adorable little ginger girl? A lot of people have been talking about it, about how she's Pixar's first heroine and everything. It is apparently a pretty big deal. To be honest, I think it's annoying that they make it such a big deal. One of my problems with feminism and everything is that they feel the need to bring your attention to all the female "firsts." I would have never noticed that she was Pixar's first heroine character if it weren't for all the articles heralding her as such. I mean, I can see why it's good to acknowledge these firsts, but it also makes everything so much more important than it has to be. Why couldn't this just be a movie about a little ginger girl? Who kicks some ass? It's not like Cars or Monsters Inc. existed for anything besides entertainment. Why couldn't this be the same? Instead, everything must be scrutinized. Like when there is a first female Senator or a first female Vice Presidential Candidate or what have you, she cannot just stand for her politics like all the men. She also has to stand for her gender. In 2008, Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin, and currently Michele Obama, were always being judged on how they represented their gender and how they dressed. Oh, she dressed too feminine, too sexy, not appropriate. Oh, she dressed too masculine, so butch, she is not proud to be a woman. She wants to be a man. Blahblahblah now you got me started, ha.

ANYWAY

I just get annoyed because, from personal experience, sometimes I just wanted to be an ECE student. Not THE GIRL ECE student. Everything had to be made that much more important. Just let me do me, sheesh.

But yeah. Not really on topic. So. Brave. A lot of the articles about it were talking not only about how she's a heroine, but about how she just looks normal. She has freckles and uncombed hair and a quirky little face. And some nice child-bearing hips. Bam. :p

That was honestly my favorite part about her. Because I mean, I don't know, Mulan was pretty kickass. I mean she did it dressed as a man mostly, but it was also a comment on the setting and time period of the story. So it was not like I had never seen a female hero before. I just had never seen one so quirky and average looking.

So image my intense disappointment when I saw the doll they made of her. Wouldn't you love to cuddle a doll with that hair and that shape and that face? Shouldn't they make the doll look just like the animation, which they are totally capable of doing, because they do it for EVERYTHING ELSE?

Guess not:

Fail.