Stereotype Girls In Disney Films

By listening to all of speeches that were presented in class, I was able to hear that in Natalie’s speech, we both mentioned how people stereotype females when playing sports as she had mentioned that the movie Shes the man quoted, ‘Girls aren’t as fast, strong or athletic than boys’ and I have mentioned that we stereotype girls at sports as we assumed they run in a crazy matter and are worrying about their hair. Both Melanie and I also stated that we stereotype boys and girls in Disney films. This can be seen as I discussed in my speech that from the image of Belle, it is shown how she has a long, slim neck, an impossibly thin waist and a narrow wrist. Melanie, on the other hand, has mentioned that when going out on special occasions, women
must be presentable. From this, we have both explained how Disney films stereotype girls by presenting on how women should look like to the society. Furthermore, As Kaushal’s presented his speech and spoke about The Masterchef Australia 2013 ad, I was able to notice that we both included that colour has stereotyped boys and girls. This is illustrated as Kaushal had stated that wearing pink clothing represents girls and I have specified that the Disney princesses wear light and bright coloured dresses. Overall, from what I have had heard from all of my peers it has enhanced my understanding of gender stereotypes in our society as they have explained stereotypes are presented about male and females through, movies, advertisements, trailers, articles, speech etc. For example, Natalie has clearly stated that in the movie Shes the man it was quoted that girls were weaker than boys at sports. Not only from that, but Melanie has mentioned about how women are stereotyped to be presentable with their clothing and Kaushal has explained about how the colours pink and blue symbolise gender.