Disney quietly kills its gussied up version of Merida, the Brave princess

Last week, in anticipation of her inauguration into Disney’s pretty, pretty princess court, Merida, the heroine of the Disney/Pixar’s Brave, got a pretty, pretty makeover. Gone was her quiver of arrows and charmingly ruddy complexion. The new Merida had boobs! And makeup! And was thinner! Unsurprisingly, this didn’t really fly with Brave fans and assorted feminists. A web-based public outcry ensued, with people claiming that the gussied up Merida was a subtle message to girls that looking like (sort of) a real person was inferior.