Gender Stereotypes In Pixar Movies

Media now has a much bigger impact on our society then when it first started. Originally there were only a few television channels and only black and while movies with basic plots. At first television and movies were used to entertain and distract now there is a lot be learned from media and a lot to be aware of in some of your and your children’s favorite movies. Many researchers and well as parents agree that there are often underlying gender stereotypes in common children’s movies witnessed; socially, psychologically, and through gender studies.
Pixar films have changed over time and have had both negative and positive effects on the development of the children watching them. Butler acknowledges the “crisis of masculinity” involving identity
crisis, leadership and portrayals of gender in these films. Butler thinks male character’s journeys toward becoming emotionally expressive and aware is positive on childhood development. Butler’s idea of the “New Man” as a positive effect on children can been in studies that Styler discusses in his article. Styler thinks the alarming trends of sexism in films can be out number with the positives in the transition of male characters from the 1990s to now. Quotes for above paragraph:
Male characters journet toward becoming emotionally expressive and aware “New Man”(Butler)
Crisis of masculinity, inclusing crises of identity, leadership, and portrayals of gender (Butler)
Negative influences these may have on children’s development (Steyer)
Alarming trends regarding the representations of males have also been found.
The negative influence of sexist representations on children has been shown by numerous studies, as has been the potential of positively affecting children’s (Steyer)

These next to articles relate to socialism by both their analysis’s talking about how television programs showing superhero characters affect the way both male and female children develop internally and socially. For instance, although Coyne’s analysis revealed superhero exposure was related to higher levels of male-stereotyped play for boys there is also a higher level of weapon play for both boys and girls. These superhero programs are creating more violence in the way children play. Also, Koenig talks about breaking the male stereotypes of leaders being culturally masculine, after her research she found that this masculine construal of leadership has decreased. Quotes for the above
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Indicating greater masculinity than the androgynous scale midpoint. Subgroup and meta-regression analyses indicated that this masculine construal of leadership has decreased overtime and was greater for male than female research participants. In addition, stereotypes portrayed leaders as less masculine in educational organizations than in other domains and in moderate than in high status leader roles. The purpose of this content analysis was to examine gender-related portrayals in popular G-rated films. Our research questions addressed the prevalence and nature of males and females in general-audience fare. To answer our research queries, 101 of the top-grossing box office films released theatrically in the United States and Canada from 1990 to early 2005 were assessed. The results showed that males outnumber females by a ratio of 2.57 to 1, which has not changed in fifteen years. Females were more likely than males to be young and depicted traditionally. In terms of personality traits, females were more likely to be smart, good, and beautiful than were males.