They can be used to promote the rights of girls to adults who will not listen to a lecture. They can perform to a mixed audience in areas where men and women must sit apart to watch live actors. A puppet may look terrifying, but its sense of menace is contained. But it is not just a question of size. We are often aware of actors as people who put on a part for a performance and put it aside when they leave the stage.
Puppets have no existence independent of their characters.
They come without the baggage that accompanies a human actor, and they can get away with things that humans cannot. Children relate to puppets from their earliest years because they are used to making inanimate characters come to life. Children are puppeteers themselves from the first time they pick up a shoe, a squeezed-out half orange or a hairbrush and make it move and talk. Toys and dolls take an active role in children's play. They laugh and talk and argue.