Role Models 'Princessified' (Holocaust Princess)

Here's what the artist, David Trumble, had to say about the project, via Women You Should Know.

“This was a response to the furor kicked up over the glossy ‘princessification’ of Pixar’s Merida character, both in image and doll form. I drew this picture because I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

“My experience of female role models both in culture and in life has shown me that there is no mold for what makes someone a role model, and the whole point of Merida was that she was a step in the right direction, providing girls with an alternative kind of princess. Then they took two steps back, and painted her with the same glossy brush as the rest. So I decided to take 10 real-life female role models, from diverse experiences and backgrounds, and filter them through the Disney princess assembly line."

OK. I like what he's getting at. Trumble, who collaborated on the project with psychologist Lori Day, also said he's well aware that the images are polarizing.

It's great to recognize these role models for who they were. But it's a disservice to "princessify" them and present them to the Facebook masses without clarifying the satire for the lowest common denominator who will likely "Share" the images a billion times. Except I think we should leave Anne Frank out it, basically 100% of the time. Yeah I think Justin Beiber proved that one... Anne Frank is just not someone who's memory is for anyone's gain.

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

PHWOAR! look at the boobs on Rosa Parks and Jane Goodall (!), is exactly what we all shouldn't be saying? This whole concept is confusing. I get it but I have no idea what it 'achieves'. DW, it was meant in a sacastic way, I'll add a (!)


Images via David Trumble