Rich Kid Here We Go Again
On September 6th, Cartoon Network dropped a bomb in Instagram announcing the addition of a new Powerpuff Girl with Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup surrounded by the silhouette of taller and, ummmmm… darker sister. Rumors spread, the interwebs speculated and soon we found out that the fourth sister was indeed an older POC. Voiced by Olivia Olson [Phineas and Ferb, Dear Actually], we later found out that the new sister's name is Bliss (nosotros'll come back to this).
I have to admit that when I first heard of there being a new sister added and that she might be a WOC, I was a picayune anxious and excited. I recollect PPG Archetype and was a huge fan. I have to be honest and say that the Cartoon Network reboot never sparked my attention until now. Like many fans and others interested in seeing what kind of a punch the new girl packed, I sat downwardly to catch the flavor two five part movie premiere Power of Four afterwards it aired on Sunday September 17, 2017. I watched the entire movie and I've got feelings. I've got pacing effectually the room stomping my feet feelings. I've got laissez passer some other Blackness adult female on the street requite a caput nod and smile in the key of "what the hell kinda white nonsense is this?" feelings. Here we become again feelings. I've got the "why tin can't we alive" blues over this shit. Please allow me to listing my issues beneath, in no significant order.
ane. Elation got more names than a Black baptist church.
Her full proper name is Blisstina Francesca Francia Mariam Alicia Utonium. Bliss for curt. I had to practice a little enquiry but to discover the total names of the other PPGs and to get my feelings in check before I went all the way in. Guess what? Blossom's name is Blossom. Bubbles is Bubbles and yeah, Buttercup is but plain ass Buttercup. Sure the girls like to give 1 another nicknames, but that's information technology. Why in hell does Elation have 6 names? You tin take Utonium out if you want and blame that surname on the professor, simply the residual of those names smell like stereotypical bullshit to me. She got the proper noun of every POC character that hit PPGs cut room floor.
2. Angry Black Girl
Manifestly Bliss can't hold information technology together. No matter her emotion, she ends up wrecking shit. Bliss' explosive manner is seemingly a result of the accidental Chemic West in her organisation and how information technology pairs with sugar, spice and everything overnice. She is noted to be the "perfect piffling girl" with yous know, just a dash of emotional instability. She'southward so emotionally unstable that she literally blows shit up and left the professor 10 years ago because of information technology. Was this character trait necessary? Hell nah. Why does the just POC PPG have to have an attitude problem? We can't get by the angry Blackness adult female trope in 2017? This is a characterization rooted in fear; a stereotype that continues to be perpetuated in many forms of media and one that I'd rather non come across in my cartoons.
iii. Monkey Business
Mojo Jojo was Bliss' all-time friend when he was Professor Utonium'southward assistant. A monkey. This Black daughter had a monkey for a best friend? At least they didn't testify a flashback of them eating watermelon together, huh? I'll take "Disparaging stereotypes and racist symbolism" for $i,000 Alex. FOH.
4. Daddy Bug
Elation seems to be the only one of the PPGs calling Professor Utonium daddy and the only ane that lived on a shitty donkey isle without him. Seriously, she left after having one of her "meltdowns" over some milk to become live on Bird Poop Island and this dude never went looking for her. She lived on an island of shit, y'all! Trees covered in bird shit. Mountains covered in bird shit. Bird shit covered in bird shit on summit of a cavern that is covered in…. you go it. Not just did he not step a pes toward finding Bliss, when she got dorsum he locked her donkey up. Well ain't that some shit nice. Good thing Bliss is a winner…
v. Hypersexualized: The Hips Don't Lie
Again, I admit that I was blinded by the thought of a POC PPG and missed some initial reactions of caution that I should have had at the announcement of Bliss. That's what your homegirls are for, though, to point out the bullshit so you can keep ya feet make clean. My sis Brittany Williams pointed out Bliss's cinched waist and broad hips and I lost it. Teenager or not, forreal? Being taller couldn't accept been enough? I mean, information technology'southward all fictional, she could've been the same size/height as her sisters. No, Bliss had to exist taller with an accentuated waist to bear witness that she was older than the others. Black bodies have been fetishized, hypersexualized, and policed since before the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, and so taking a disquisitional centre to Bliss' concrete portrayal is necessary. Information technology's necessary criticism because information technology was an unnecessary distinction.
I could probably keep going with the listing, but why. When nosotros add information technology all up, the sum of it all equals to Drawing Network jumping on the diversity bandwagon and skipping the relevance and relationships to its viewers for a piece of the equality pie. Instead of a new PPG worthy to stand her own basis and a kickass petty super-heroine, we were given the possible makings of some other magical negro to add to an always-growing list. The archetype been played out and so is Cartoon Network. Bliss left at the end of Power of Four and I don't blame her. I've seen this kickoff and ending likewise many times to count.
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