Oh, Great: Now We’re Giving Minnie Mouse Body Image Issues


STOP THE PRESSES, EVERYBODY: MINNIE MOUSE IS FAT. REPEAT! MINNIE MOUSE IS FAT.

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OMG put down the ice cream and LISTEN TO ME, you fucking cow!

Yes, just when you thought the human race couldn’t possibly ruin more, the folks at Disney and Barneys New York pulled this doozy. Behold the new Minnie Mouse: supermodel, fashionista, and stranger to all things carbohydrate:

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Please take a moment to recover.

What you’re seeing above is an image created especially for the famous holiday window displays at Barneys New York. This year’s theme is Have Yourself a Merry Little Eating Disorder “Electric Holiday,” and features some of your favorite Disney characters looking, well…different:

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Uh.

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Wut.

(OH GOD LOOK AT HIS WEIRD LITTLE HUMAN HAAAANDS)

See, part of the concept features a short film in which Minnie Mouse imagines herself a runway star in Paris, and that’s when she magically transforms from Normal Minnie into Mini-Thin Minnie — and that’s also when some people (myself included) start to feel ooky. Actresses Virginia Madsen and Kristen Bauer are up in arms about Skinny Minnie, as well as body image blogger Ragen Chastain, who had this to say:

The message is if your body doesn’t fit into a designer dress, drastically change your body. Not, let’s insist on a designer that’s talented enough to make a dress that fits you. That’s a dangerous message to send girls, ‘Minnie Mouse doesn’t fit into a high-fashion dress so we changed Minnie Mouse, not the high-fashion dress.’

The Disney and Barneys folks are all THIS IS FASHION, GET OVER IT, and as for myself? Well…I tend to just roll my eyes at this shit and move on, but…look at that picture. I see actual fucking CLAVICLES. ON MINNIE MOUSE. It might just be part of a seasonal display, but it still makes me feel kinda weird.

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But not as weird as this OH GAAAHD MAKE IT STAAAHP.

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  • frogprof

    Just be thankful they didn’t give Goofy a “package.”

    • JiveTurkeyJones

      *BLARGH*

    • DianaCLT

      And I was honestly just thinking to myself, ‘What’s next? Mickey modeling men’s bikini briefs?’

  • Renee

    As someone who used to work for the mouse I would like to add that Minnie was almost always played by a man. Women just didn’t have the calfs to pull off those legs. I would like to see Barney pull the new mini Minnie as a drag queen to complete the authentic evolution.

    • JiveTurkeyJones

      This has given me quite a lot to think about.

      • Renee

        If to give you more thought tinker bell and Peter Pan were also dating and also two dudes.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Becki-Thompson/1387917270 Becki Thompson

          Not true. I also worked for the Mouse for MANY years in CA including parades. Tinker Bell is ALWAYS a girl, Peter Pan goes either way, lol and Minnie Mouse was usually a girl.

          • Renee

            This was in the magic kingdom and the high wire tinker bell was a guy.

  • Annabelle Archer

    Oh for fuck’s sake!!!
    Normally, I am all meh, whatevs, on all this kind of hype. Truly I don’t get riled up about all of the think of the children kind of shit but this is ridiculous!

    If it’s “just fashion” then leave iconic KIDS CARTOON CHARACTERS the fuck out of your twisted sick body issue propaganda.

    fuck. i am pissed.

    • JiveTurkeyJones

      Yeah…it’s just all kinds of weird and icky, and not in a good way. It just doesn’t FEEL RIGHT. And that usually means it isn’t.

  • Annabelle Archer

    Also, man scarves are douchy – even on Goofy.

  • Swistle

    Oh, ICK.

    I notice Chuckie Cheese got a slim-over recently too. Not QUITE so slim—but his body is now narrower than his head.

  • MollyGMartin

    Gawrsh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/traceygaughranperez Tracey Gaughran-Perez

    Terrifying.

  • SuzyQuzey

    Disney Hipster Holiday? NO THANK YOU, PLEASE GO AWAY.

  • Sarah

    The phrase WTF comes to mind because seriously????

  • http://twitter.com/thegrumbles the grumbles

    I’m glad it’s for a store and not “for kids” but it’s still SO RIDICULOUS. And ditto the person below about the “package.” I looked. Twice.