{"id":55288,"date":"2013-05-10T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=55288"},"modified":"2013-05-12T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T06:09:22","slug":"braves-merida-gets-a-disney-make-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/05\/10\/braves-merida-gets-a-disney-make-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave&#8217;s Merida Gets a Disney Make-Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/vitaminw.co\/culture-society\/disney-gives-braves-merida-makeover\" target=\"_blank\">VitaminW<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2006, The Walt Disney Company bought the computer-animated feature film powerhouse Pixar. \u00a0This makes the lead of their most recent movie, Brave (2012), not just a princess, but a <em>Disney<\/em> Princess. \u00a0Merida is having a royal coronation at the Magic Kingdom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethemagic.net\/2013\/04\/merida-to-become-11th-disney-princess-with-new-look-for-royal-coronation-ceremony-at-walt-disney-world-on-may-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For her coronation, the princess has gotten a good ol&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/08\/merida-brave-makeover_n_3238223.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney makeover<\/a>. On the left is the new Merida (&#8220;after&#8221;) and on the right is the old Merida (&#8220;before&#8221;). \u00a0Notice any differences?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/05\/113.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55289\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/05\/113.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the ones that I see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sleeker, longer hair with more body<\/li>\n<li>Larger eyes and more arched eyebrows<\/li>\n<li>Plumper lips<\/li>\n<li>A thinner waist<\/li>\n<li>More obvious breasts<\/li>\n<li>An overall more adult and less adolescent appearance<\/li>\n<li>Lighter colored and more ornate gown<\/li>\n<li>A lower cut neckline that also shows more shoulder<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps most symbolically, her bow and arrows have disappeared in favor of a fashionable belt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll add the new Merida to our always-growing collection of<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/socimages\/sexy-toy-make-overs\/\" target=\"_blank\"> toys and logos that have received sexy make-overs<\/a>. \u00a0You&#8217;ll love this Pinterest page, featuring a surprising set of newly sexy characters, including <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919523030\/\" target=\"_blank\">Care Bears<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919523028\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polly Pockets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231494\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Hobbie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231490\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Shortcake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231481\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Little Pony<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231483\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rainbow Brite<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231468\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cabbage Patch Kids<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231464\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dora the Explorer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/82190761919231470\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Trollz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at VitaminW. In 2006, The Walt Disney Company bought the computer-animated feature film powerhouse Pixar. \u00a0This makes the lead of their most recent movie, Brave (2012), not just a princess, but a Disney Princess. \u00a0Merida is having a royal coronation at the Magic Kingdom this morning. For her coronation, the princess has gotten a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,129,23703,343,120],"class_list":["post-55288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-media","tag-marketing","tag-tvmovies","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55344,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55288\/revisions\/55344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}