In her first op-ed on the Merida Makeover, Oscar-winning "Brave" writer and co-director Brenda Chapman discusses the message that she hoped her character, Merida, would send to young girls and how the makeover undermines it. As Chapman writes: "The message Disney sends to the public in changing Merida is that she is not good enough the way she is. In doing that, they are making the same statement to all the young girls out there. Merida is a character that young girls look to and say, “I can be like her – she’s not that different from me!” Or even better, they look at Merida and say, “Merida is like me!” So now when they see what Disney Consumer Products has done to Merida, it tells them that they aren’t good enough unless they lose weight, wear tighter, sexier, “girlier” clothes, wear lots of makeup and coif their hair." To read the full op-ed on A Mighty Girl, visit http://www.amightygirl.com/blog/?p=3556