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Created: 12/19 06:13 am
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You've got to be kidding me. When I was young, I didn't have enough knowledge to grasp those concepts. Those scenes didn't even phase me.
I swear, people over-analyze the media and entertainment completely.
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At 09:59 pm
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I’ll agree that Cinderella’s sexism would come from being saved from an unpleasant circumstance by someone else in a more advantageous position – or more to the point, a male figure. That may demote the importance of independence and self sufficiency, that you should seek someone else to support, come to your aid, and solve your problems. However this movie along with Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty are older and part of the culture up to the 50s with picturesque suburbia and women homemakers. This would also come into play on a woman’s role in history, not to mention the courting habits that still today are used often to the absurd irony of everyone’s sense of feminism.
With Mulan, I didn’t see as much sexism directed at females, but more to the males – what you expect from them (brawn, muscle, machismo, fighting) and that weakness in any of these areas means that you aren’t a “real man.” There was a mark at the end where the main female protagonist uses logic to solve a problem where strength seemingly couldn’t. In either sense this is an improvement. Earlier women protagonists usually solved a problem or got something to go their way by using their sexuality, which was portrayed frequently in Disney films. This could also be interpreted that strength and physical competency doesn’t necessarily make you as effective as a well rounded sense of intelligence can; noting that both are important. However that seems to conflict with some of the statements in the movie, but I don’t have a clear sense of it, since I haven’t seen Mulan since its release.
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