Nancy Gruver and her family founded the groundbreaking international publication, New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams, in 1992. A petition started by the media watch website A Mighty Girl received over 200,000 signatures in a couple of days.Įarlier today, just as quietly as it had unveiled Merida's new look, Disney substituted an image of Merida from the film on its princess website, and removed all of the images of the new doll from the website.ĭisney might not always make the right decisions, but they can tell which way the wind is blowing.This parent-child discussion guide for Disney/Pixar’s Brave is a supplement to The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls through the Princess-Obsessed Years.īrave (2012): A parent-child discussion guide But it was also a move that undid everything the character fought against in her own movie.Īfter Chapman herself wrote an angry open letter on May 11 addressing the sexualization of the character and the message it sent to teenage girls everywhere, the floodgates opened on an Internet backlash. The new look may have been designed to bring Merida in line with the other princesses on Disney's princess site, all of whom are canonically older and, well, hot. The new design made her thinner, bustier, older, and hotter, and put her in a slinkier, lower-cut version of the dress she loathed from the film. The official Princess website has replaced the newer artwork with images of Merida as seen in the Pixar film. Disney has quietly reversed its decision to give Merida from the movie Brave a new look as she joins the group known as the Disney Princesses.
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