A female lead character?
Conservative Americans would go crazy! What sort of message would that send to the children?
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 19:21, archived)

EXACTLY
and then you couldn't have sinister girl-cows with udders, chest swellings roughly where human breasts would be, earrings and a sidekick role.
( in vino veritas, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 19:24, archived)

udders and boobs, eh?
reminds me of pottery classes in school when we were making birds, and were explicitly told not to do a mouth underneath the beak, because that's just stupid. But apparently that's quite a common mistake otherwise.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 19:25, archived)