Old Disney Stereotypes Essay
Gender in the Media
Final Research Paper – Old and New Disney Stereotypes
Disney stereotypes from a far seem to be changing for the best and leaning towards pleasing the new generations. Yet after analyzing the newer films there are still problems with stereotyping races, and dehumanizing women into fairy tale princesses. For this paper I choose to study how Disney continues to slide by and get away with racial stereotypes and comments by using just enough “good” so that many people do not notice. This essay is trying to answer the question, what scholars Old Disney and how does new Disney challenge it? First I plan on talking about older Disney paradoxes such as race stereotypes starting with older films like Dumbo and ending with the 90’s film The Lion King. Next I discuss the classic “princess” paradox which occur in Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, and The little Mermaid. After this I …show more content…
Since she does not have a dress of her own, little mice offer to help and sew her one. As the mice sing happily while taking care of everything Cinderella needs to get to the ball, one of the female mice sings “leave the sewing to the woman” this tells girls they are supposed to do domestic tasks and not boys.” This particular princess preaches it’s not hard work, but beauty that counts, all you need to do is get a wealthy man to fall for you.
Snow White, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, also like Cinderella, teaches girls they must clean the house and be domestic. According to snow white women are supposed to stay in the home, and your only goal in life should be the acceptance of a man. This movie also adds fuel to the fire in regards to girls hating each other, Snow White teaches girls if you are beautiful enough, some women may try to kill you and in reality that means fear/ dislike girls who may be
Final Research Paper – Old and New Disney Stereotypes
Disney stereotypes from a far seem to be changing for the best and leaning towards pleasing the new generations. Yet after analyzing the newer films there are still problems with stereotyping races, and dehumanizing women into fairy tale princesses. For this paper I choose to study how Disney continues to slide by and get away with racial stereotypes and comments by using just enough “good” so that many people do not notice. This essay is trying to answer the question, what scholars Old Disney and how does new Disney challenge it? First I plan on talking about older Disney paradoxes such as race stereotypes starting with older films like Dumbo and ending with the 90’s film The Lion King. Next I discuss the classic “princess” paradox which occur in Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, and The little Mermaid. After this I …show more content…
Since she does not have a dress of her own, little mice offer to help and sew her one. As the mice sing happily while taking care of everything Cinderella needs to get to the ball, one of the female mice sings “leave the sewing to the woman” this tells girls they are supposed to do domestic tasks and not boys.” This particular princess preaches it’s not hard work, but beauty that counts, all you need to do is get a wealthy man to fall for you.
Snow White, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, also like Cinderella, teaches girls they must clean the house and be domestic. According to snow white women are supposed to stay in the home, and your only goal in life should be the acceptance of a man. This movie also adds fuel to the fire in regards to girls hating each other, Snow White teaches girls if you are beautiful enough, some women may try to kill you and in reality that means fear/ dislike girls who may be