Urbzen » body image http://urbzen.com A funny thing happened on the way to web stardom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:40:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dora the Exploiter http://urbzen.com/2009/03/06/dora-the-exploiter/ http://urbzen.com/2009/03/06/dora-the-exploiter/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:38:43 +0000 admin http://urbzen.com/?p=95 According to our friends over at FishbowlLA, there’s a bit of an internet fracas brewing between Mattel and a coalition of worked-up mommybloggers over the company’s decision to “magically transform” girl-hero Dora the Explorer into, well, something of a slut. 

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The mommymob fears that the new, skankified Dora will influence their daughters to develop body image issues, eschew books in favor of makeup and spread their legs for every two-bit SpongeBob on the block, which is probably true since I grew up playing with stuffed animals only to become an unrepentant furry.

Anyhow, the Concerned Women for Chaste Cartoon Characters (CWCCC) is sending around a petition demanding that Mattel suspend Dora in her pre-pubescent glory, forever. Sign up here.

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