Posted on 05/26/2016 11:39:37 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24
Disney Junior has a popular show for younger children called Doc McStuffins. The cartoon features a young Black girl who runs an imaginative clinic for doctoring toys and stuffed animals. In a recent episode the Doc noted that Michelle Obama was an "inspiration" to her. She even won a student contest and participated in a White House trip and danced with a cartoon slenderized Michelle Obama. But the specifics of this admiration for MO involved Michelle's fitness and nutrition initiatives which of course include her ever-unpopular school lunch influence.
An earlier ad campaign for the show featured a Black female doctor who explained how great it is to see such a cartoon character who "looks like her" (Black female). This real-life physician then held up a photo of someone who had inspired her and it was another Black female physician. It just seems there is a great degree of emphasis on role models that "look like you" and are Black females. Why do role-models have to "look like you" rather than just being good people?
I want to be cartoon slenderized— oh, and I want Hollywood burned to the ground and then sterilized with salt so that nothing will ever grow there again.
Keep in mind that heroines/role models that “look like you” has been a deliberate and highly successful marketing strategy of Disney’s for years with the whole Disney Princess line.
I understand girls will usually choose dolls that look like their race but I doubt many Black girls aspire to look like Michelle O.
Probably any type of Purina Kid Chow would be a more popular kids lunch than much of the Michelle-inspired skimpy veggie plates.
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