This is a comment to megrachelle49‘s blog. I agree with her 100% on the fact that Disney shows men as masculine and women who are delicate and beautiful….but I mean is that such a bad thing? I don’t agree that disney is sending the wrong message to children at all. I mean think about how different your life would be without those movies you grew up with. Mine would be extremely different. I wouldn’t have had my dress-up closet full of disney princess dresses, I wouldn’t have had my princess barbies, and worst of all, there would be nothing for me to look forward to when we went to florida. I don’t think it is such a bad thing that they portray men as masculine, I mean after all, aren’t they? We can’t help it were built different, and that we have different hormones running through our bodies. Women are delicate and they are beautiful, and if I want to believe that my prince charming will eventually come rescue me, what’s wrong with that?
Without the masculine men saving the dam-sills in distress, no one would want to watch the shows. Who wants to see an old, fat, ugly guy meet up with and ugly, manly looking women. NO ONE! Don’t get me wrong, I am not in anyway trying to offend fat, ugly people. I am just being realistic in knowing what the world wants to see. I found this awesome quote that can pretty much sum up the point of Disney Movies, “I have watched Disney films all of my life; the label precedes the majority of the films I view, in fact…. not once have I gathered from a Disney movie, or any movie, for that matter, that I am better than any woman or any girl. Gaston, yes, clearly thinks he is. But who wants to be Gaston? He’s disgusting, and that’s the whole point. And Kuzco and Hercules? They’re ego-centric morons who start off as jerks and end up as nice guys, having learned their lessons. The whole point of those movies is that creeps can change.” Below is the beautiful side of Disney
Resources:
Frost, John. Constructions of Masculinity in Disney Movies. (2008) <http://thedisneyblog.com/2008/08/08/constructions-of-masculinity-in-disney-movies/>
