“Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.” ShouldGirlHeroPaintGenderRidiculousPrincessSuperficialBrushesThat GirlArchetype Author:David Trumble
“It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.” UniqueIndividualityFlaws Author:David Trumble
“We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!” DoeFacesBrokenTragedyAdversityBeing Broken Author:David Trumble
“The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?” RealWantedReal LifeStatementsHeroines Author:David Trumble
“I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.” GivingWantedFashionFiguresTinyCollapsePlasticUnnecessaryMoldHeroines Author:David Trumble
“If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.” IfsThinkingFirstsProblemYoungGirlPerfectStepsBoxesInstanceFirst StepsOutside The Box Author:David Trumble
