Disney Movies

“Disney Movies”, the best type of movies there are. These movies were my childhood, and still are my life. However looking back on some of these movies I see that even though most had good intentions, they really downgrade women.

I love Disney movies because they take you back to your childhood when everything was simple, and the biggest challenge was to pick which Disney movie to watch! J With all the songs, amazing characters, and awesome adventures that each of the Disney characters go on. When I was a child I loved watching the Disney princesses, because every little girl dreams of growing up, meeting their price Charming, and becoming a princess of a far off land. However now that I look back at these movies I realize that this perception of girls and women in these types of movies, could be affecting our generation, and the future generations.

Disney movies portray women as weak, and in need of being saved by a man. They make women think that their biggest role in life should be to find a man, so that this person can provide for you. However in real life, we need to be teaching our children the complete opposite of this. We should be teaching our children that you don’t need a man to survive, and that your biggest goal shouldn’t be to meet the right man so that they can take care of you. Rather little girl’s dreams should be growing up to do great things with their life, but not relying on a man to do so.

Even the other Disney movies, that aren’t having to do with princesses, have strong male leads, with supporting female leads, that almost every time, need to be saved from this or that. We hardly see any movies that show a women as the main focus of the movie, where she needs to save the man. Even if there is a movie like this, the writers portray the women as being too arrogant, selfish, or mean. I think Frozen did almost a good job at portraying a least one female character as not needing a man to survive. Elsa, was all for herself, and didn’t need a man to tell her what to do. She was also one of the only princesses that didn’t end up marrying someone at the end of the movie. On the other hand Ana was the complete opposite, she thought her only goal in life was to find her prince Charming. Yet we still saw Elsa as the evil character, and Ana as the Heroine.

Overall I think Disney needs to change how they portray women in their movies, because it is making young children have unreal expectations, and these gender roles will continue to play a part of our everyday lives.