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Coming Up Next: Sexism on the Disney Channel

Everybody’s speculating. Everything has a hidden meaning behind the general message. Did man really walk on the moon? Did Michael Jackson really have skin disease? Is Walt Disney really sexist?

There has actually been an open debate about whether the characters in Disney films display sexist bias. The thought of it hit me when I was reading a story of Snow White on an SAT practice test. Despite zoning out completely on the critical reading portion, I started to pick up “clues.” I mean, look at it: the basic story revolves around romance, chivalry, friendship, and the general concept of good dominating evil; however. viewed another way, we have a queen with a nonstop obsession with her beauty. She wants to kill her stepdaughter, who then flees desperately to the protection of seven dwarves, some plagued with shyness, mood swings, colds, and narcolepsy. The girl, being so trusting, eats food from a peddler woman who looks like something remotely close to Madonna. She dies and shall only awaken when kissed by a Prince…. a handsome.

I don’t think Walt Disney would have been satisfied with the story if the charming man on the white horse happened to look like Prince Charles. In reality, the prince didn’t hear of Snow White from a distant land far, far away and decide to come rescue her. He probably just happened to be riding by. Upon seeing the hut of the dwarves, he goes in to ask for a beer, when suddenly, he sees the girl lying there with incomparable beauty. He decides to bring her back as a maid.

Walt Disney generally “shifts” towards men. The queen in Snow White, for example, depicts women as beauty-obsessed creatures that always need self-assurance. Snow White, gullible and needing protection, is portrayed as a girl who is innocent and sweet that also happens to be a great housewife and cook. The prince is the stereotypical “perfect” male that sweeps the girl off her feet.

Gregory Schwartz: “Why does the girl always get to be the princess?”

That’s right. Why do they? I’ve stopped reading Disney stories for a while, but if they released a new story involving a heroine saving some nerdy prince with acne problems, I can guarantee that would be a bestseller.

One of the more celebrated stories happens to be Beauty and the Beast, in which Belle, an attractive peasant girl, catches the eye of a hideous beast. She then goes through a series of adventures and eventually becomes—you guessed it—a princess. Yes it does sound like a happy ending. There are birds chirping and dogs barking, yes, happy times. However, for those little girls on the other side of the television screen: beauty = happy.

It shapes a type of consciousness among these young girls that pretty is good; in fact, pretty is all that they need. They begin to imitate what they see. Some little girls, donning princess costumes, will do household chores or pretend to be in a state of imminent danger, sometimes calling the neighbor’s boy to come slay the dragon (a pillow) and carry her off to the castle (the kitchen). This demonstrates the fact that girls are prepared to accept the “save me” role in a relationship, as it has become a part of their character.

Disney doesn’t do males much justice either. They always happen to be the ones to save the girls. If any of the girls that was captured by the villain had single-handedly smacked the tar out of the antagonist, we wouldn’t really need the knight in the shining armor. Some boys that watch Disney shows develop an early stage of feigned masculinity that can alter their egos in the future.

Of course, some boys try to fly with their living room carpet and talk to stuffed monkeys.

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