As Libé rightly pointed out, the avalanche of cartoon reboots from our childhood is an opportunity for producers to give their characters a little polish. However, when it comes to polish, girls are particularly targeted: the general imposition of a standard of thinness, beauty and desirability has led to the transformation of normal characters into kinds of hotties, forgetting in passing that the sexualization of teenage characters was very unhealthy.
1. Miss Bille-in-Head
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We remember Mademoiselle Bille-en-Tête, the magic bus teacher who drove her class on adventures that no insurance policy would have agreed to cover. For the Netflix reboot, she gave way to her sister, Fiona. And it’s funny, but his sister, she’s really hot, actually. With a huge chest molded into a sweater when Valoche wore her old sixty-eight dress. It’s funny, huh?
2. Dora the Explorer
Dora has grown up. So, farewell to the bowl cut and the little can: at 12, Dora looks like an ultra-thin heroine without an ankle. She even wears earrings to be a real girl. Finally always the same stories, what.
3. Huey Dewey and Louie
Well now they are 4, with Zaza. In itself, adding a female character is rather a good thing. The problem is that if Donald’s three nephews have kept their little childish look with caps, Zaza, who has joined them, is wearing eyeliner. Frankly, the little ducks, they are seriously better with a little facelift, aren’t they??
4. Strawberry Shortcake
A somewhat androgynous little girl with freckles and curly red hair. That was strawberry shortcake. But that’s changed slightly since Strawberry Shortcake has long, slicked-back pink hair, four-foot-wide eyes with mascara, corpse-thin arms, and laser-and-pencil eyebrows. We wonder how she finds the time to do her homework with her 2 hours of daily hair removal and her chart to count the calories she sends herself.
5. Inspector Gadget’s Niece
Sophie, Inspector Gadget’s niece, was a normal young girl with pigtails. Now she has breasts, a waist that must be 15 cm wide and skintight child size jeans that emphasize the fact that she has transformed into a young woman. It’s heartbreaking to think that even the characters of daredevils are now represented as cannons of beauty.
6. Carmen San Diego
The world’s greatest thief has always been sexy. But she had a somewhat square face and broad shoulders. In the images of the reboot released in 2019, Carmen finds herself decked out with a very small mischievous face and especially wrists of terrifying thinness. Take a look instead.
7. Scooby-Doo Girls
Scooby-Doo and Samy had two friends: one intellectual and therefore necessarily ugly, the other too beautiful and necessarily a little superficial (did you say sexist?). Well, ugliness doesn’t sell. We therefore revamped the nerd to make it more compatible with current beauty standards, enlarged the pretty eyes, slightly shortened her dress and halved the size of their respective thighs. Everything is fine.
8. Blondine in the land of the rainbow
To bring happiness and joy to the inhabitants of the earth, having a ridiculous hairstyle and a child’s face does not work. On the other hand, wearing a little short skirt and having a face pumped on that of Scarlett Johansson, it helps. They understood it well the guys who relaunch the series.
