In these two blog entries, Daphne describes the situation illustrated below–reproducing great art but making it skinnier, because, you know, it should be to look right. In the first entry, she expresses what seems to be dismay when she says, “…when I noticed a trend that stopped me and sent me furiously turning pages back, saying “oh my god! Look what they’re doing!“
But in the second she says, “False alarm, no harm, no foul.” Or rather, “Basically, there is no conspiracy. These are NOT a deliberate and wanton desecration of the original artworks; the sculptors and model-makers are “innocent victims” of the system and not deliberately trying to persecute women or harm anyone’s body-image.”
No, the “innocent victims” have been exposed to too many Bratz and Barbie dolls.
Somehow her initial dismay became apology for the industry in which she works. I guess we all have to cover our own arses.
But still, desecration is desecration, and in my view, that’s a desecration of glorious art and the perpetrators are assholes.
Feel free to disagree.
