Anyone who walks away from this article thinking that the above is a reasonable interpretation of what is going on here has completely missed the point.

Nobody seriously objects to lots of girls liking sparkling pretty things. Or to there being lots of role models for that.

The objection is to the complete lack of alternate role models for girls who don't fit into that mold. And for mutilating a character who emphatically was not of that mold.

To draw an ice cream analogy, this is chocolate lovers upset that they are being offered every variety of vanilla, and nowhere any chocolate.