So here's my problem with the "She-Ra should be sexy!" thing. It's basically saying that young girls can't have anything for themselves. Media aimed at them must first appeal to grown men. And that's insidious.
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I don't care if you were eleven in 1985 and She-Ra was your first crush. Kids of all genders deserve to get what white boys of the eighties took for granted: to have heroes who embody *their* fantasies, instead of telling them to embody someone else's fantasies.
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If a bunch of adult women insisted that He-Man had to be sexually attractive to them because he was their first crush, Misogynerds would riot. They would fall over themselves to insist that He-Man was THEIRS because they wanted to BE HIM. And guess what? Girls deserve the same.
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So yeah the obvious reply to "this thing for children is not sexy" is "my dude, it is not supposed to be sexy." But the argument under the argument is about giving girls heroes who are NOT designed to be sexy to grown men, and why that's important--and also why it's threatening.
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Oh wow yep thats bad. Thats a bad precident to set
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Rolls eyes she looks like a Hanson brother
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That's not ecen the problem with the new design. It has a low quality bootleg "made in flash" look to it.
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I'm more concerned about the subversion of making a girl's icon look so overtly masculine. That's like saying being masculine is superior, which is a huge red flag to me. That's why I object to the design.
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How is she masculine though? She has long, flowing hair, a pretty crown, and is wearing a skirt with shorts underneath. Is it that she doesn't have a large chest? Or is not wearing heels?
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