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disney princesas Most Feminist DP Movie Countdown! dia 4: Pick the LEAST Feminist! (Elimination based on comments)
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a bela adormecida
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9. Aladdin
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7. ?
Please try to remove your bias and give concrete reasons why you view said movie as least feminist!
Ehh, I might change my answer before the end of this round, but I just watched Tangled a couple hours ago so it's fresh in my mind. i do find Tangled extremely problematic on many levels, and despite being the most recent DP movie it has as many problems as the classics. First of all, the complete lack of female representation. No, just because Rapunzel's a good character doesn't give this movie a free pass. (which we will probably end up discussing when it's Mulan's turn to go). in total there are only 3 female characters with memorable screen time. One is the heroine, one is the stereotypically vanity obsessed villain, and the last one has no lines.. At all. Gothel as a villain is a whole new set of problems as well. Of course we never find out why she's so obsessed with living forever, and there isn't much wrong with that except how people interpret that. Nearly every person I discuss Gothel with thinks Gothel is obsessed with youth simply because she is a woman. It's views like this that are poisonous to people. This could've been solved with a little back story on Gothel's part, like maybe she was afraid of death because she saw someone die. And of course, Rapunzel is a problem too. Her weapon is a frying pan, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just every other female character who uses a frying pan weapon (see Princess Peach in Super Smash Bros) is ridiculed. There's more too it, and I'm happy to here counter arguments to my reasons. But these are my thoughts.
As a character, Rapunzel might be more feminist-friendly than Aurora, but a movie as a whole? Not particularly.
There are gender roles galore in Sleeping Beauty, but the fairies play too prominent a role for me to vote them out, plus the plethora of female representation. Also, there is no conflict of beauty between Maleficent and Aurora, and it's more about Maleficent exacting revenge on her parents. However, I fail to see the fairies as the heroines of the film, or as the protagonists. The movie centers around Aurora, it's about Aurora (and to quote someone else)and -- the fairies are not protagonists because their actions have no “self” in them- their entire point in the movie is to assist Aurora. Everything they do leads back to her. Most people do not watch the movie for the fairies or find themselves identifying most strongly with the fairies and that’s usually a sign- if not an absolute qualification- for the protagonists. Everything centers around Aurora.
On the other hand, the message of Tangled is decidedly more feminist than Sleeping Beauty's. I don't know.
Sleeping Beauty has a mostly female cast, the females make all the important decisions in the movie, as I already pointed out in my article I see it as the most feminist movie of all time. And while Aurora does nothing exceptionally heroic, there is nothing wrong with her character.
I stick to my list for now and go with PotF - because while I see Tiana in itself as a very feminist character, the movie does her no favours at all. After all the years working hard for her dream, she only get what she wants because she finally has a man at her side...and what a man. It goes beyond me why a woman like Tiana should fall for an unresponsible guy like Naveen.
Though I might change my mind later on...the placement of TPatP is one I wasn't sure about when I wrote the article. Perhaps I should give the movie more credit for trying....but the ending...urgh.....
After all the years working hard for her dream, she only get what she wants because she finally has a man at her side...and what a man. It goes beyond me why a woman like Tiana should fall for an unresponsible guy like Naveen. - lol I agree completely.
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