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Gender Stereotypes in Disney Movies

Katherine Alejandrino

Created on November 2, 2023

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How the Portrayal Of Disney Princesses Affects young girls

Sleeping Beauty

Cinderella

Jasmine

Snow White

Beauty and the Beast

Tangled

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Film Industry

Media

Disney

Affect on Girls

Survey Results

Conclusion

Rapunzel

Rapunzel has been locked away in a tower since she was captured as a baby by an old hag.
Her magical long blonde hair has the power to provide eternal youth, and the evil Gothel uses this power to keep her young.
At the age of 18, Rapunzel becomes curious about the outside world,
When a prince uses her tower as a refuge, she asks him to help her escape.
She waits for the princes help

Cinderella

An abusive stepmother and two stepdaughters go to a royal ball, leaving behind Cinderella.
Her fairy godmother appears and grants Cinderella's wish to go to the ball, magically providing a coach, servants, a dress, and perfectly fitted glass slippers.

Does domesticated tasks like cooking and cleaning

Does not attempt to escape them by herself, she waits for a prince's help
She married the prince and escapes from her family with him

Belle

A young prince and his castle's servants fall under the spell of a wicked enchantress, who turns him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return.
The village girl Belle enters the Beast's castle after he imprisons her father Maurice
With the help of his enchanted servants, including Mrs. Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation.
The Beast is not always kind towards Belle
Refuses to feed Belle until she eats with him, and yells at her

Impact on the Film Industry

The film industry thrives off of making movies with gender stereotypes- they are in some of their most classic movies
Women in the industry are given secondary and stereotypical roles
Women have limitied opportunities securing imnportant roles
Women are sometimes paid less than their male co-stars
Underrepresentation of women in the film industry

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Impact on Young Girls

Portrayals of people in the media affect children’s developing beliefs and ideas
Children are young and it makes an impression on them
Beauty and the Beast/Aladdin- Teaches children that they can manipulate people with their sexuality
Beauty and the Beast- try to change abusive behaviors and stay with the person, abusive behavior is okay
Children idolize their favorite princess and try to emulate them
Feel pressure to be like them without knowing why
Young children are still developing and are easily impressionable, they will try to emulate behaviors they see
Children grow up watching these movies
Teach us how a princess should look, act, gain happiness, find a prince
Teaches girls that they should expect to play a patriarchal role in society and they should need a man to help them
Develop and unconscious need to be saved by a man
Children will strive for unrealistic goals

Aurora

Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday.

Aurora falls into a deep sleep that she can only be woken up from by a kiss from Prince Phillip
To prevent Phillip from rescuing Aurora, Maleficent kidnaps and imprisons him.
Aurora is submissive and can only be saved by the actions from a man

Gender Stereotypes in the Media

Women are underrepresented
Usually portrayed as young, beautiful, thin
Placed in situations where they depend on their looks, not their brains and knowledge
Depicted as sex objects

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Snow White

Snow white hides from the wicked queen in a cottage with seven dwarfs
The wicked queen brings Snow White a poisoned apple which causes her to fall into a deep sleep
She can only be woken up from a kiss from a prince
Cooking and cleaning are portrayed as her duty
"Fairest of Them All”- looks and obedience
Her first quest is to find prince charming
Portrayed as a happy homemaker waiting for a prince to rescue her

Theme

80%

of what see, we remember

50%

of our brain processes visuals

90%

of the information we assimilateis received through sight

Analyzing the Data

Young girls are easily impressionable and they watch Disney princess movies while they are still growing up. Seeing the princesses portrayed as a "damsel in distress" gives the girls false expectations for life. The princesses are portrayed in a patriarchal light who do domestic activities and strive for a prince to save them. The girls see this and idolize the princesses, they even try to emulate the domestic and submissive behaviors without even realizing it. Gender stereotypes are very present in Disney princess movies and it does not sedt a good example for the young girls watching.

Summary

We don’t like to bore. We don’t want to be repetitive. Communicating in the same old ways is boring and doesn’t engage people. We do it differently. We annihilate boredom. We create things the brain likes to consume because they stimulate it. Visual content is a transversal, universal language, like music. We can understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.