I guess it is not usual to dedicate stamps to bad women, or bad people in general... unless they are fictional characters.
One year ago USPS issued a sheet of stamps showcasing 10 classic Disney villains: six women, a man, two animals and a half-man-half-beast. I received two of them.
Royal Mail has dedicated some stamps to Lewis Carroll's novels. The first one I show here was issued in 1998. The second stamp belongs to this 2015 issue. These two villains are often confused!
For the new edition of Sunday Stamps-II A to Z, I have decided to show some of the stamps I have got on letters and postcards, related to one topic: women. This is the post for the letter V.
More women on stamps.
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| Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians) |
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| The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) |
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| The Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There) |
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| The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland) |
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For the new edition of Sunday Stamps-II A to Z, I have decided to show some of the stamps I have got on letters and postcards, related to one topic: women. This is the post for the letter V.
More women on stamps.
It's peculiar: usually the mayority of people-on-stamps are men. Now that it comes to bad persons, the mayority are women...
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should coynt: would it be due to Disney (would the mayority of classic Disney movies contain women as vilains) or would it be due to the USPS choice?
In recent classic-to-be animation movies (Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks) which come into my mind, the bad one is a bad guy (Ratatouille, Up, Despicable Me, Shrek), but maybe my mind is as selective, too :-)
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DeleteI thought the same. I came to the conclusion that it isn't only about stamps. But, as you wrote,probably our mind is biased ;-)
DeleteInteresting observations about this stamp set. At least it provided a great word for V.
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DeleteHaha, I just had to laugh about that observation - us, women can be real villains, esp. when it comes to men... but that's one endless topic for analysis :D
ReplyDeleteGreat topic to choose for the V letter, btw... haven't seen that Queen of Hearts before - it is beautiful!!
Everyone can be a real evil! But then they don't appear on stamps ;-)
DeleteI blame Disney.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know about this series - good choice to share this week!
I think they were quite popular. As every Disney product, I guess!
DeleteThis is a take on women on stamps that I could never have predicted. Fine stamps.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't very usual to see "bad people" on stamps, is it?
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