Well, you probably knew this was coming, didn't you? Of course you did.
In the 90's, to promote Michael Jordon and his line of sneakers, Warner Bros. brought back the Looney Tunes cast out of retirement to produce Space Jam, a movie that couldn't be more 90's if it tried. But they ran into a problem: the only female among their cast was Granny, and despite how strong she may be, Jordan needed the cartoon stars on his team and Granny was kinda, well, Granny.
To bring a female into the mix and promote that Spice Girls "GRRL POWA!" that was going on at the time, Warner Bros. added Lola Bunny to the mix. There's a lot of problems with Lola, though, at least in her start. Big problem #1 is that she isn't very funny, and, when you've got cartoon characters who by their very nature star in satirical comedy cartoons, being "not funny" is a death sentence. Problem #2 is that she was basically eye-candy, a sexualized bunny with feminine form to draw audiences to. Why not? Jessica Rabbit was just last decade!
Lola stuck around for a while, getting a role on modern cartoons as being goofy and ditzy. While there's a lot that can be said on how Lola's two modes are "sex object" and "dumb blonde" and how that's two negative female stereotypes right there, that's not what you read this blog for, is it?
No, I'm sure you noticed that Lola is always dressed while Bugs doesn't have anything but his gloves on. Past Looney Tunes gave their female animals aprons, but not much else, see Pepe Le Pew and Daffy Duck's one-time wives for details. It's amazing that despite them mainly being housewives, they still are a little more equal in that manner, and when you're being beaten by the 1940's, you're losing the war. (No pun intended)
This isn't just Lola, however. Characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog games have the same discrepancy in outfits, with males like Sonic, Tails and Knuckes having little but shoes and gloves, and girls like Amy, Cream, and Blaze being dressed. Just this year, every Emoji in The Emoji Movie looks like a big face, big hand, or giant turd (need I mention the movie is not good?), but the females all have some kind of dress and hairstyle that makes them look less like Emojis. A grinning Emoji would just be a big grinning yellow face, and what the heck is Jailbreak supposed to be? Besides WildStyle, of course, because that movie is basically every 2010's animated movie in a blender.
This difference in attire once again calls to the fact that females are considered "inherently sexual" while males are not for some reason. Nobody wants to mate with a rabbit, but for some reason these girls are being designed as if you might consider it. Even bereft of clothing, as seen in the Lola pic above, they are still designed as sexual beings, to the detriment of things like characterization and good character design.
Tune in tomorrow when we bring this to an end, and find TWO solutions to the problem! One might shock you...

Reposted from arcroyale