Thread:Disney4Disney/@comment-1672596-20140521223932

Hi.

I noticed you kept on removing that bit about the Bimbettes technically having more physical beauty than Belle. However, I thought it was necessary to note, especially when franchises such as Dead or Alive, Love Hina, Tomb Raider, Metroid, Barbie, heck, Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII depicted beautiful women more like the Bimbettes than they did Belle. And I'm not even considering blonde hair or green eyes regarding those characters, either: In Dead or Alive, for example, of the busty women in the game, only two are actual Blondes: Helena Douglas (who coincidentally heavily resembles one of the triplets from BATB, even sharing the same nationality) and Rachel. Three if we count Sarah Bryant from Virtua Fighter in there. The rest are a natural redhead (Kasumi), a natural brunette (Hitomi and, to a lesser extent, Tina Armstrong pre DOA2), dark haired (Lei Fang, Kokoro, Momiji), white haired (Christie), African-American (Lisa Hamilton), and dyed hair (Tina's a dyed blonde and Mila's a dyed redhead), oh, and also one with no actual real haircolor (Ayane's a purplehead). In fact, the only character who actually comes close to Belle's figures is Marie Rose from DOA5U, and that's mostly because she was geared towards young children getting into the series. Similarly, in Love Hina, of the late teen/early adult characters in the franchise, only one was actually blonde: Mitsune. The rest were brown/red-haired (Naru Narusegawa and Mutsume Otohimi) or black-haired (Motoko and Kanako). Even then, only one of them came close to being flat-chested (Kanako. Again, any children in the franchise do not count since most either haven't hit puberty yet or are just barely about to.). Now, I don't like Love Hina because of it exploiting women, but nevertheless, it's pretty obvious they were specifically designed to be beautiful due to their physical traits and were definitely closer to the Bimbettes end than Belle's end (exempting Kanako), and it's clear that it worked as otherwise the franchise wouldn't have even sold well at all. Same with Dead or Alive. That's why the trivia bit was actually necessary.

Now, if it was done less tastefully than it should, I guess I can see why it would warrant a removal, but we'll still need to note that bit so we need a way to actually reword it to be as tasteful as possible. 