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[surrey_sucks]

As I was reading Rapunzel's Daughters, I came across an interesting fact. Maybe it's common knowledge, but I never knew the story about Smurfette. On page 49 of the book, the author starts talking about how TV and movies "stress the importance of attractiveness."

Time after time, romantic leads are played by good-looking females who get the

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[innocenz69]

Hello there =) You commented on my LJ a while back :) You seem like a pretty fascinating person so I just wanted to shout "hi" back! :)

[surrey_sucks]

Hello back! I had forgotten that I had made a comment!

[surrey_sucks]

The link doesn't work :(

Anyway, I did grow up with the Smurfs, but I can't remember how often the show was on in Canada. When I was 11 (so this would be Spring of 1990), my family went to Australia for a month, and the Smurfs were on all the time, so I watched it a lot then.