Miss representation is a hair raising film that has been created to show the incorrect treatment of women these days. As we are viewing the film a startling statement is produced. Disney princesses were never viewed as the protagonists in films they were always viewed as the damsels in distress needing help from the princess that would magically run into them along the way and make a fairytale ending.
"Is Disney Princesses promoting the ideas of sexism through their movies to little girls so that we believe that it is okay to be impowered as adults?" and "Is their other research out their that is also beilieving the same conclusion i have came too?"
As i begin to explore the ideas of the Disney princesses starting the subconcious brainwashing of our future generations of women i find some others that are in agreement with my logical thoughts. I began to fall into the giant black hole or as other like to call "Google" to see others opinions. I come across a independant news source article that has come from the Daily Campus by the University of Conneticut. Cassie Schmidt is the writer of this article who is willing to show the problems that we have all been facing since we are little. As we look through all of the commentary that all can make the girls in these movies are all showing female obedience to the man. Besides the fact of showing women as slaves to the men it also shows how the ideal love will occur after you work through your troubles. As anyone who is a avid reader of my blog you will see that I am very into the whole idea of love and how Hollywood makes love seem so easy. These princesses are searching for love while they are slaving away to the man in the story.
I feel that the producers of these films and Disney corporation itself were not trying to straight out promote sexism through their stories but they did find a way to let it show through. As more and more complaints walked through the doors Disney tried to be more conscious of the message they were sending to viewers. Subconsciously all little girls were role playing, and aspiring to be like their favorite princess and they didn't want them to believe in a sexist world. When the movie Aladdin and the King of Thieves appeared they tried to send a different message. In the end they had no other women around in the story and Jasmine resorted to being alone and the only way to solve the conflict was to marry a man.
As I am continuing my search of Disney princesses degrading women and showing sexism I came across a website that is also showing how Disney movies are showing degradation and sexism to men. Here on this website clearly titled to help women overcome sexism they found the issues in Disney movies for men. A YouTube video showing the idea of broad shoulders, huge arms, and a cocky attitude are portrayed in the films as well. They are subconsciously now teaching boys to assume that they will be waited on as long as they look like the hot man with the moves. This whole connection shows to me that not only is sexism pounded into little girls heads when were young, boys also get the pressure and the priming as well.
The Disney movies were only the start of sexism beginning to pour into the media and literature. We all need to save the future generations from being brainwashed subconsciously to believe that sexism exists. In our decade we are starting to expand out the ideas of sexism and we are making a difference. Lets hope this will continue on so we can have a better future for all.
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