Brennan, my almost five year old son, for whatever reason has discovered and fallen in love with Strawberry Shortcake. Watching him enjoying movies and TV shows that I loved as a child has been so much fun, however, I have a big bone to pick with all of these updated characters.
Let's look at the Strawberry Shortcake that I knew and loved. I loved her so much that I bought my mom a Strawberry Shortcake video tape for her birthday when I was four years old. (Okay when I say, "I bought" I meant my dad bought.) Now, she's "updated" and, well, really pretty! What about the younger looking Strawberry who was more like me as I was a child? I don't have any qualms with bringing back classic TV characters but why do we have to update them? Then, I found My Little Pony on our Netflix queue. I loved My Little Pony so much! The fun hair, that pony smell the toys had when you opened their package; ah I loved everything about them. The updated version looks so different! I'm not even sure what the premise is for the show now and to be honest I didn't really know what the original My Little Pony story was because I was more into the toys than the TV show.

I TOTALLY AGREE!!! Media starts playing with self esteem at too young of an age, and all of these changes aren’t helping.
What bothers me is how the updated versions are more sexualized. Little girls have so many negative messages about their value being based on appearance, and now Strawberry Shortcake is implying the same idea. So frustrating!
My little one is too young to be watching tv, so this was interesting to see the updated characters. I’m dreading the Barbie years!
I loved Rainbow Brite, too!
I don’t really like it. It seems like the more they “update” things the sexier they try to make them look.
Come on now. They’re marketing to small children, why does Strawberry Shortcake need to be so much older looking, and look so much sexier than I am okay with my tween looking!!!
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