Gender Roles in Disney

Media is a powerful agent to entertain children. It also affects and teaches social adolescents that they inevitably attempt to understand proper and appropriate gender roles. The power of the media is very influential, especially in the hearts of young people. Disney's movies are targeted at young people and incorporate specific ideas and concepts on social culture into a group of fragile children. As Disney does, media uses gender benefits. Among the many movies produced by Walt Disney Company, humorous cartoons reveal some of the cruel reality of Disney Princess' s account.

Media played an important role in understanding the gender role of children. A good example is Disney movies. In these movies, the main female character, usually the princess, is about the sweet, romantic, fancy of the Prince who is almost always wearing a soft color. Meanwhile, the same Disney movie can be seen in place of the prince and male audience The prince is usually very strong, willing to fight, and always gets a girl in the end. These roles often lead to misunderstandings about what women and men are. Within sexual identity, Disney may represent extreme values ​​of appropriate sexual roles

Especially at the early stage of the Disney Princess movie, depiction of Disney regarding men and women is influenced by gender norms and roles. When the Disney Princess movie was first released in the 1930's, the main cultural understanding of women was closely related to their role as a housewife. In order to win the audience and customer base, Disney used these ideas when the first Princess films "Snow White" and "Seven Dwarves" were released in 1937, effectively using Disney Princess Movies I drew them in a role. In addition, in the initial film production, almost all Walt Disney employees were men. Films produced by male employees not only reflect the dominant view of gender but also because the men of the time were thought to be more capable and thus superior to women, the inherent bias I'm waiting. This reflects a strong, skilled number of men and a quiet and weak social custom of women.

Disney Princess movies are excellent for showing us the typical sexual role and stereotypes between men and women. Sometimes they spoil sexuality, but this often fails to show us the stereotypical idea of ​​the typical sex role. I'd like to focus on nine specific Disney Princess movies, but I also discuss other Disney Princess movies that break the role of gender. The nine Disney Princess movies that I draw attention are "Snow White" and "Seven Pictures", "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", "Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", " Hyacinth ". ", Muran", "Princess and Frog". All these nine princess movies are primarily movie stars, mainly female and male characters, and female characters.