When looking at images of cartoons I wanted to look at similar age groups of both what age the shows were targeted to and what age the characters in the cartoons were:
I first looked at Doug:
Note how the most skin that is shown in either below the knees or from elbows to hands. The only case different is the green skinned girl in the upper left corner.
There is also no shape to these characters. There is not womanly figure to the girls and no seen muscles on the boys
I then looked at a more modern cartoon of Kim Possible:
There is more shape to Kim, the red head. She is much skinner and has a bear waist. But still not that bad.
It was then I tried to find more images in each show to see if there was a different.
In boys I compared the main male characters Ron Stoppable and Doug Funnie.
These boys are pretty similar. Both wear baggy clothes and show realistic body shapes for their age group.
In girls, this is not the case. I compared Kim Possible and Patti Mayonnaise.
Patti (on left) essentially has the body shape of a 2x4. She is still feminine due the shirt but it is in no way pressuring girls to look a certain way. Kim and her friends, center above, show curves and tiny waist and breast. (I am not sure about the pointed part)
Even when I found the another image of Patti and The Doug gang, the same things still run true that Doug is not pressuring its audience to look a certain way.
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