I’ve been complaining about this for a while already … who decided to update Strawberry Shortcake and make her all cute and hip for the 21st century?
So finally someone highlights the issue, but the article doesn’t really hit the tone I would have wanted, which is basically: if it’s a nostalgic character, shouldn’t its nostalgia be preserved at all costs? i.e. no slimming down of fictional characters, no turning nappy hair into luscious locks, no giving them anime eyes makeovers etc etc etc
see below:
BINGIT SIAK.
The original Strawberry Shortcake was, ok, kind of a ditz, but in a ‘I’m a kid, I live only for cats and sweets’ kind of way, which is fine you know? But the “new” SS looks like she’s going to start picking up boys in primary school.
Actually this new SS is actually another version of an already updated SS (which you can find in your local Popular bookstore adorning files, notebooks and pens):
Ok, super not cute – she looks very country hillbilly tomboy in this version, and come on … the hair! Ugh.
The updated versions are both equally hideous, to me.
Let NO ONE touch the Peculiar Purple Pie Man, please.
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Tags: nostalgia, peculiar purple pie man, strawberry shortcake
eee i pun tak suka. i can forgive beauty mags and hollywood shoving their ideal of beauty in adult women’s faces, but catching little girls in the trap is sick. i don’t remember having a lot of hot cartoon characters when we were kids. speaking of which, my cousin who is 9 has been very concerned lately that she is fat. when obviously she is not. 9 i tell you.