Blog 19

The video starts out with Geena Davis talking about the female stereotypes portrays by cartoons. She starts with Walt Disney talking about Minnie and Daisy duck being the first female cartoons. Then she starting talking about Looney Toons and the Granny was the only females. She talks about the mom from the Jetsons being too skinny; she also bring sup how Miss Piggy had cleavage. She then talks about the Smurfs how Smurfette was only bring into the cartoon because she was going to destroy all the other Smurfs.

She then shifts into Daughters and Dads which is a non-profit that want to boost the self image for young girls. They funded a large study of G rated movies, 3 out 4 characters in G rated movies are males. In 1990-2005, females were highly stereotyped in movies and there was not increase in female characters. The issue is programming for our children have a large imbalance. There is a large disparity between male and females, so what is it teaching our youth?

Women are stereotyped in danzel in distress or helpless females waiting for males to save them. Name one Disney before Milan where the hero was a female? Even in Mulan she portrayed a man in order to be considered heroic. She was banned from the army and her family was shamed because she was female. Not until recently did females start having heroic parts instead of being princesses. Disney shows children that women are supposed to succomb to men and they cannot take care of themselves without males in their life. It is the ageless classic of Prince Charming coming to save the Princess, this is what we teach our children. From a young age, children are shown the stereotypes of males and females.