Hey, HERE'S something to hate!

[slappy magoo]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...nt-hoax_n_5567711.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

The artist Saint Hoax, who previously used images of Disney characters to promote awareness of the threat of incest with paintings of Disney princesses locked in kisses with their fathers whose intentions seem amorous, is at it again with another stupid publicity grab. This time, the Princesses have all been beaten up, presumably by the respective princes or male leads from their movies, with the tagline "When did he stop treating you like a princess?"

Maybe it's just me, and these provocative paintings are far more effective than I think. But to me they come across as just being provocative for the sake of being provocative, for generating talk about the artist versus the message. But were a little girl, impressionable and optimistic, were to see these images, what are they prone to think? Aladdin beats Jasmine? Eric beats Ariel? No one is safe, even the people who save you and love you are prone to beat the **** out of you if you get mouthy or he gets drunk. Trust no one.

As a dad who works really hard to try to be a positive role model, this just es me off. There have gotta be better ways to get children to be aware that no one should be hit by anyone, even people who love them, then with these images, which to me, would make a child scream at the movie "NOOOOO, come back! He's only going to smack you when we're not around! Come back!"

I hate people sometimes.

 

[Disneydreamer23]

All I looked at were the pictures and they were messed up!

 

[Master Yoda]

I kind of have mixed feelings on this.

The pictures are in no way appropriate for a young child, but they might be effective in getting the point across to a teenager.

The message is also a real important one making shock value somewhat appropriate.

 

[216bruce]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...nt-hoax_n_5567711.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

The artist Saint Hoax, who previously used images of Disney characters to promote awareness of the threat of incest with paintings of Disney princesses locked in kisses with their fathers whose intentions seem amorous, is at it again with another stupid publicity grab. This time, the Princesses have all been beaten up, presumably by the respective princes or male leads from their movies, with the tagline "When did he stop treating you like a princess?"

Maybe it's just me, and these provocative paintings are far more effective than I think. But to me they come across as just being provocative for the sake of being provocative, for generating talk about the artist versus the message. But were a little girl, impressionable and optimistic, were to see these images, what are they prone to think? Aladdin beats Jasmine? Eric beats Ariel? No one is safe, even the people who save you and love you are prone to beat the **** out of you if you get mouthy or he gets drunk. Trust no one.

As a dad who works really hard to try to be a positive role model, this just es me off. There have gotta be better ways to get children to be aware that no one should be hit by anyone, even people who love them, then with these images, which to me, would make a child scream at the movie "NOOOOO, come back! He's only going to smack you when we're not around! Come back!"

I hate people sometimes.

Very well said. There's got to be a better way to get the point across. These are too 'young' audience-wise to be truly effective and could certainly cause some really serious confusion and unwarranted fear with young girls. They need a lot of explaining, which will likely be in short supply for many of them.
Princesses should remain an escape- fun, inspirational (yeah, the new-ish ones sure are) and just a 'mental cotton candy' for most folks. Not everything has to have meaning and social lesson/relevance.

 

[slappy magoo]

I kind of have mixed feelings on this.

The pictures are in no way appropriate for a young child, but they might be effective in getting the point across to a teenager.

The message is also a real important one making shock value somewhat appropriate.

I think it's basically a bear poke, the artist cares less about doing something worthwhile with these shocking images and more about doing something that makes a giant corporation come down on him so he can represent himself as a martyr of censorship and a hero to free speech proponents. Which means if Disney winds up doing nothing (which is of course their prerogative), his next move will probably be something like showing the Princes as being HIV+, weak and in hospice. Or the Princesses topless but after undergoing mastectomies. Mickey Mouse getting his eyelids spliced open in a Mary Kay cosmetics lab to test how their new summer fragrance line irritates eyes in a "no testign on animals" PSA.

Because if you can't use proprietary imagery & frighten children to get your point across, what CAN you do for attention nowadays?

 

[Animaniac93-98]

The message is also a real important one making shock value somewhat appropriate.

But do you need trademarked, G-rated cartoon characters to achieve that?

At this point the "bad things happen to Disney characters" meme is overdone and comes across as lazy.

 

[seahawk7]

I kind of have mixed feelings on this.

The pictures are in no way appropriate for a young child, but they might be effective in getting the point across to a teenager.

The message is also a real important one making shock value somewhat appropriate.

But Disney princesses usually have more affect on a little girl since teenage girls have mostly gotten over the magical appeal that the princesses once held for them. So, in using Disney princesses, the target audience is the little girls.