To expand a little on the "uncanny valley" explanation above, (in my case, anyway) there's also the factor that most of us are still watching cartoons when we start to realize that maybe them girls ain't so yucky after all, but we are more familiar with, more friendly with (if you will), the cartoons than with the real (formerly yucky) girls.
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And that never really goes away...