Disney Streotypes by Megan Chea

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megan_chea — 2023-11-13 04:13:59 UTC

The size, wealth and international reach of the Disney Corporation are significant. It owns the bulk of our children’s media, giving it the power to dictate the types of images our children view.

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2023-11-13 04:34:47 UTC

To dismiss the beauty and gender ideals Disney promotes through its Disney Princess films and merchandise to the target audience of 3–5-year-old girls who emulate them as a short-lived fancy is a grave mistake. Children absorb these messages with sophistication.

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2023-11-13 04:39:53 UTC

With the Disney Princess marketing image, continue to perpetuate traditional gender roles and promote increasingly sexualised body aspirations to young girls, which may lead to negative body image and low self-esteem.

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2023-11-13 04:45:54 UTC

Fairy tales have been much criticised by first and second-wave feminists because of the gender stereotypes they contain. As fairy tales illustrate societal norms of the times they were produced, the gender bias is an unarguable truth.

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2023-11-13 04:52:00 UTC

Research shows girls want to be thinner and boys more muscular after watching Disney films.

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2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC

Not just the physical characteristics, but the labelling of 'Dopey' and 'Bashful', were not helpful in the playground.

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2023-11-13 05:09:23 UTC

People with restricted growth are, in the majority, born to average height parents - they never live in gingerbread houses, have little bear beds nor live in homogeneous groups together.

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2023-11-13 05:14:35 UTC

she hoped the new Snow White would attempt to modernise the trope that had influenced "how the Dwarfism community is objectified, mocked and portrayed within society".

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2023-11-13 05:21:46 UTC

It is my hope that the latest live action remake, and Disney, will, at the very least, go some way to redress the dec ades of the one-dimensional stereotypes that our disability continues to experience, especially within arts and cultural settings.

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2023-11-13 05:24:22 UTC

I feel this obsession to find people with restricted growth funny has come about from people's first experience of 'the dwarf trope'."

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2023-11-13 05:28:23 UTC

Even at the ripe old age of five or six, you know, seven years old, watching that on TV, I had the very distinct feeling that there was something very wrong, and that Tonto never deserved to be called a sidekick.

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2023-11-13 05:31:33 UTC

In my own small way, it was my way of trying to, you know, at least attempt to right the wrongs of what had been done with regards to the representation of Native Americans in cinema.

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2023-11-13 05:34:17 UTC

This Tonto is first seen in a sideshow diorama labeled "Noble Savage." Depp says the character is meant to be humorous. The Lone Ranger even kids him about the word Tonto, meaning dummy in Spanish.

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2023-11-13 05:37:56 UTC

For months, Depp and Disney labored to court Native Americans.

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2023-11-13 05:39:56 UTC

They didn't put us down or they didn't make fun of us in any kind of way. So it was real.

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2023-11-13 05:58:52 UTC

They include the portrayal of coders as sun-starved and soft-bellied nerds who spend long hours alone in front of their computers. And almost always, those TV characters are male.

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2023-11-13 06:15:31 UTC

So when Disney Junior approached Google and NASA last year for a new series about a space adventure-seeking boy, his smart sister who codes and mother who drives the family spaceship, everyone involved in the project was determined to bury those stereotypes.

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2023-11-13 06:22:34 UTC

They agreed that done right, the show could help get girls interested in the sciences at an early age.

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2023-11-13 06:23:59 UTC

After all, the data on gender and careers showed that the media can play a huge factor in girls' decisions to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math

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2023-11-13 06:25:10 UTC

We want all kids to get interested in science, but we really felt that it was important for girls in particular to see strong female characters,

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2023-11-13 07:19:18 UTC

Gaiman focalizes many of his fairy-tale and fable appropriations on the voices of women, but the deployment of fairy-tale figures in postmodern appropriations also involves the repetition of stereotypical representations of women, particularly older women or witches.

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2023-11-13 07:21:08 UTC

The contemporary urge to rewrite fairy tales from a feminist perspective.

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2023-11-13 07:23:44 UTC

A narrative that takes place in Faerie with recognizable figures from other fairy story and folkloric traditions, most notably, the witches.

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2023-11-13 07:26:09 UTC

The connection between beauty, age, and power is made even more forcefully in the screen.

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2023-11-13 07:28:05 UTC

For the men, the narratives show ageing as primarily positive (22) versus what they read as an emphasis on youth for women. They also assert that the text disrupts gendered assumptions around aging in a revolutionary way.

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2023-11-13 07:32:34 UTC

Although children's literauture and cinema are seldom studied critically for their thematic relevance in social structures, their influence on yung, impressionable minds cannot be denied, and they are often the first teachers of gender politics to new generations.

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2023-11-13 07:36:21 UTC

Women gain more rights and gender streotypes get challenged.

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2023-11-13 07:37:01 UTC

The story rejects sterotypes surrounding women, but also challenges the conventional gender, binaray, gender roles, and heteronormativity.

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2023-11-13 07:40:59 UTC

These alterations in the representation of gender and sexuality are important to note as they give a glimpse into the ideaologies about women that permeate all social structures.

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2023-11-13 07:42:46 UTC

Rapunzel does not submissively sit in silence like a docile lady.

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2023-11-13 07:45:53 UTC

The witch, broadly defined as a female1 human or human-like creature capable of magic feats, often embodies conflict.

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2023-11-13 07:46:48 UTC

The term refers to how several modern adaptations of fairy tales re-imagine the witch as a misunderstood creature who actually tries to do good.

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2023-11-13 07:48:40 UTC

interpretative space for queer and feminist readings of Frozen

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2023-11-13 07:50:22 UTC

More than ever before in history we have fairy tales about fairy tales, or fairy tales that expose the false promises of the traditional fairy tales and leave open the question of a happy ending or even end on a tragic note.

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2023-11-13 07:51:54 UTC

The real villain in these adaptations is a character who uses the witch as a scapegoat to further his or her own malicious political goals.

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2023-11-13 07:53:25 UTC

We are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community.

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2023-11-13 07:55:14 UTC

Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White.

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2023-11-13 07:56:46 UTC

The organization wants to see Disney change the stereotypes perpetuated in the film.

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2023-11-13 07:57:34 UTC

We do not endorse or support people with dwarfism being portrayed as a likeness or represented by fairy tale characters but as people with an enriching and productive existence.

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2023-11-13 07:58:43 UTC

If Disney can update the character of Snow White to fit today's perceptions of what a strong female character should be, they can also put in the work to disassociate the seven dwarfs from humans living with dwarfism.