>It’s no secret that toys with stereotypical gender traits or unrealistic characteristics have a negative (or at least undue) influence on body image. Earlier this year, CNN reported that “as recently as 2006, a British study found that ‘girls exposed to Barbie reported lower body esteem and greater desire for a thinner body shape’ than those who had been given dolls reflecting larger body types or no dolls at all.” The same holds true for what kids and teens see in the media: ProjectKnow, an informational website promoting education about addiction and recovery, cites a study which “revealed that nearly half of girls aged 13 to 17 wish they were as thin as fashion magazine models.” Moreover, the site also notes 20.1% of 11- and 12-year-old girls and 18.5% of boys in that same age group are dissatisfied with their bodies.
>According to ProjectKnow, cartoons are one of the worst offenders in terms of improbable body shapes. In fact, to illustrate how unrealistic most animated characters look, the site reverse-Photoshopped iconic figures to make them look like modern teenagers. The results are striking: Daria’s thigh gap is gone, while the Teen Titans version of Robin and Scooby-Doo’s Shaggy aren’t quite so lanky. Gohan from Dragon Ball-Z, meanwhile, loses his defined upper arm muscles. “In many ways, teenage cartoon characters are stuck in the past,” ProjectKnow explains. “Their body shapes have drifted further away from an image that most people can relate to: They idealize a body type that’s increasingly unattainable for many.”
Have no fear! Project Know has stepped in to demonstrate how to make cartoons less triggering!
Jayden Campbell
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Connor Nelson
>Why don't cartoon characters have more realistic body shapes?
They cartoons
Chase Morris
So basically they want everyone to be chunky, fuck that tell those kids to stop being lil tubbies.
Bentley Flores
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Matthew Torres
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Justin Turner
ProjectKnow is standing on my neck
Thomas Lee
Third, fourth, time this week?
Robert Roberts
.... seriously? Gohan was buff for a 12 year old because he trained his body
Blake Lewis
Sageposting in a great thread.
Evan Murphy
Go back to tumblr, you worthless piece of shit. We don't want your sjw bullshit agenda here.
Eli Jones
Why does realistic = disgusting blob
Tyler Young
Because it gives them an excuse and justifies their bad habits. Anyways ignore and report this shitposting thread.
Ian Russell
because Tumblr, user
Nathaniel White
Can we put 'shopped sailor moons bottom half on regular sailor moons top half?
Joseph Scott
>mfw 'realistic' for these people literally just involves drawing all the characters fatter
Top kek
Asher Turner
These all look really bad. That Robin one especialy.
Luke Brooks
Why are they picking on these shows which are stylized as hell? Robin's calves are giant as hell and Daria isn't supposed to have boobs. B-but he can punch wholes through buildings. How is this even fair?
Samuel Watson
Stop making this fucking thread. Report and hide.
Asher Hall
>cartoons >realism
pick one
Oliver Baker
I can't understand this sort of thing at all. Seeing perfect v-torsos on my cartoon dudes never made me feel bad about not being one myself, it just made me fucking sick of seeing the same unrealistic body type everywhere. And made me latch onto Spiderman and Batman Beyond, who were both definitively slimmer.
Luke Smith
>We gotta make them all fatter. Except for Gohan. He needs to be skinny because he's muscular and that's no good.
Oliver Wright
Are they trying to give little kids hardons or what?
Hudson Reyes
>realistic means fat and ugly
Every time.
Jaxson Thomas
They missed the joke that he's so skinny because he's running from monsters all the time.
Samuel Torres
This shit is made by fat fetishests, right?
Mason Howard
Is being triggered the only thing that amuses you anymore Sup Forums?
Camden Hughes
>making characters more realistic means make them fatter
Jesus christ fuck fat people.
Tyler Richardson
Actually the right was how Naoko intended her to come off as in the anime.
