Media Essay
Meilyani Grendy
ENG3U Ms Disha
August 18, 2014
Femininity and Disney
Disney has impacted the lives of children for more than three decades now, and has been influencing the way they think even at a young age. It supports and actually created the idea of how different gender, race or age group should be treated. Unintentionally, we pick up morals from Disney of how to deal with certain gender groups. In addition, Disney has put women into different stereotypes that the representation of women and femininity is narrow in the media. Images of women did not change, women are still differently stereotyped and the different representations of the characters inside Disney leads to the narrow representation of women in the media.
From time to time, women are represented as a modest character. There has only been a little or even no change in the depiction of women in the media, Disney in particular, and this leads to the representation of women becoming more and more slender. Women, in all Disney movies have a particular characteristics which show that they are not the central change of the plot story. These characters includes having big breasts, nice bodies, small hips and even extensive volume of eyelashes. Also the fact that how women are serve as a distraction in order for the protagonist to do the dirty works and them only as a helper. As an example would be the movie The Little Mermaid, where during the climax of the story, Ariel was in danger, ironically in her natural habitat which is the sea, but Prince Eric came to rescue and even killed the villain. All these analyzation has taken place in the media, but still there has been no sign of transformation to improve the depiction of women in the media. Even now, in a more modern world, women is still represented as a minor character that distracts the main characters inside Disney movies.
Disney also puts women into stereotypes that made everyone thinks femininity is defined as what they are showing. One
ENG3U Ms Disha
August 18, 2014
Femininity and Disney
Disney has impacted the lives of children for more than three decades now, and has been influencing the way they think even at a young age. It supports and actually created the idea of how different gender, race or age group should be treated. Unintentionally, we pick up morals from Disney of how to deal with certain gender groups. In addition, Disney has put women into different stereotypes that the representation of women and femininity is narrow in the media. Images of women did not change, women are still differently stereotyped and the different representations of the characters inside Disney leads to the narrow representation of women in the media.
From time to time, women are represented as a modest character. There has only been a little or even no change in the depiction of women in the media, Disney in particular, and this leads to the representation of women becoming more and more slender. Women, in all Disney movies have a particular characteristics which show that they are not the central change of the plot story. These characters includes having big breasts, nice bodies, small hips and even extensive volume of eyelashes. Also the fact that how women are serve as a distraction in order for the protagonist to do the dirty works and them only as a helper. As an example would be the movie The Little Mermaid, where during the climax of the story, Ariel was in danger, ironically in her natural habitat which is the sea, but Prince Eric came to rescue and even killed the villain. All these analyzation has taken place in the media, but still there has been no sign of transformation to improve the depiction of women in the media. Even now, in a more modern world, women is still represented as a minor character that distracts the main characters inside Disney movies.
Disney also puts women into stereotypes that made everyone thinks femininity is defined as what they are showing. One