Gender Roles in Disney Movies

A slideshow portraying how older animated Disney films used stereotypical gender roles in their films

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• gender role
• Disney
• children
• sexism proshow

[Rockrebelrewind]

and just so you know, disney has based these movies on childrens stories and tales. ariel or the little mermaid was around before the movie. as was hercules.

[Rockrebelrewind]

it's a fucking movie. grow up.

[MasterSethern]

You guys must remember these movies were made when women were actually women, not fucked up sexually confused and completely out of control... Duuuuuh... Lolz, silly fucked up people :3

[LexaLynn18]

Also many of the Disney princess films were made in the time period where women weren't seen as much other than child bearers and housekeepers. Back then those movies weren't as controversial as they are now. But times are changing and Disney is making more feministic heroines.

[LexaLynn18]

Children may be impressionable at the young age when they first watch these movies but when I was a child I did not recall thinking "men are better and stronger than women" and with everything in the media there is always a negative message you can find in ANY movie. Try focusing on the positive aspects of these films. Mulan showed that a women can do anything a man can do if not better. Belle is a bookworm and although many in her town frown upon it, she doesn't care and likes being intelligen

[thedumpsterbabys]

@Sully64ify You're right, I mean the fact that physically bigger and stronger men have the gender role of doing physical labor and women doing less physical activities as well as those that can be done by pregnant women is hardly based on physical charactoristics. The fact is gender roles evolved from the differences between men and women.

[Sully64ify]

Yes but Disney warps them as it sees fit and to fit a single cultural message. Let's not forget that in the REAL "Little Mermaid," the mermaid essentially destroys herself in despair and then learns she is capable of redeeming her own life and soul - without the prince that Disney insist she (and every other princess) have. The Mouse changes stories as it likes, so a question deserves asking: why does DisneyCorp always change stories towards a particular message?

[Sully64ify]

@thedumpsterbabys - You mean SOME gender roles have TRADITIONALLY been based on physical characteristics. It's hardly true of all, and in any case, it hardly matters any more. The gender type that says a woman is her best as nothing more than wife, mother, and housecleaner has nothing whatsoever to do with physical characteristics. It has to do with power and paternalism.

[shairaptor]

@ijurcough shut it, i don't wanna be friends with ya anyway ;P

[ijurcough]

@shairaptor You lost. No friends.

[shairaptor]

@thedumpsterbabys lets just agree to disagree ok?

[thedumpsterbabys]

@shairaptor You're right cartoons are not about making children? But if i was trying to sell a cartoon directed towards children and their parents why would I produce one directed towards people who can't physically have their own children. And as far as gender roles being outdated? Check our military. It's a fact that men are physically stronger than women. Gender roles come from physical characteristics and until those are untrue cannot be outdated. (cannibalism is natural too)