Though these were films created over 50 years ago, they give ample opportunity for women to have their voices heard. And in “Sleeping Beauty,” women deliver a whopping 71 percent of the dialogue. In the classic three Disney princess films, women speak as much as, or more than the men. Nevertheless, the sidekicks and authority figures and random citizens that fill out the casts skew male - a fact reflected in the percentage of dialogue spoken by female characters.ĭisney has incredible power over the social construction of girlhood, so I find this level of analysis welcome and instructive. And of course Frozen features a sister-sister relationship, and Brave features a mother-daugher relationship. Of course Ariel and Pocahontas and Mulan required a patriarchal society against which to rebel (or, in the case of Ariel in her human form, in which to be a fish-out-of-water). Starting with The Little Mermaid, Disney took greater care to make their princesses more active, but they still do their princessing in masculine worlds, where male characters make plans (nefarious or benevolent), invent things, discuss politics, plan rescues, etc. But the article is actually an interesting read. I almost didn’t click on it - learned behavior after being burned by too many silly, low-value listicles (split up into 15 different pages). The silly click-baity headline in the Washington Post says “Researchers have found a major problem” with Disney princesses films.
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