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[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Time Mistress

I'd love it see a Disney Fairies series. I've always loved Tinkerbell and have read a few of the kids chapter books for the Disney Fairies series and they are quite good. Done properly, it could be a great cartoon.

As for the Tinkerbell movie, while Disney has finally decided to put a stop to their "cheapquels" a few were too far into production to stop, Tinkerbell the movie being one of them. I heard it will be pretty bad too, but it is Tink, so I kinda hope they are wrong. I'll watch it and judge it on its own merits if it has any.

It could be if done properly... but it probably wouldn't. I can just see it being a very girly cheaply made product. Like their sitcom line up... yuckka!

I really do believe that cartoons that don't promote gender roles are the way to go too, Dr. Tooth. I mean, look at how many girl fans there are of TMNT, like me, and it's a so-called "boys" cartoon. But I also think that if you look at the new fall line up of cartoons, too many of them feature a boy hero which automatically brings to mind the label of "boys cartoon." Doesn't mean girls won't watch them, but I wonder why we don't have more "strong girl" cartoons around like Sailor Moon or Jem and too many like Strawberry Shortcake as you said. We could do with a few more Kim Possibles or Juniper Lees is all. And I always liked Pepper Ann too.

Here's something I've been saying for years. it's hypocritical to have strong female leads in a boy demographic cartoon, and horrible, weak, let's look pretty types as stars in grils cartoons. look at Bratz. Yuck! Not only are they lying around looking pretty, they pretty much set women back to preSusan B Anthony days, and look like terrible sluts doing it. The Barbie dolls try to make it look like women can be anything, and yet Bratz oversell them.

There are boys shows with bad girl characters shoved in for no good reason (we are TMNT fans... we know exactly who I'm talking about.... and it ain't April.) But then they do something wonderful, like X-men or something. Strong women like Storm, Rogue, Jean Grey. We need more role models like them. plus women like that make better characters anyway.