Why is it so important though that their media role models be animated? There are a tremendous amount of real life female role models (which always always stuck with me longer than girls in movies when I was little...and come on, you know what a Disney nut I am) to expose your girls to. There are a lot of movies about these women and then when they get older, books.
I understand the point...I will gladly point out every last flaw with the Princess deal and other females aimed at young girls.
I do not have children of my own, but my cousins girls are like my own and I strive to expose them to strong, capable female role models (especially considering the grand majority of completely skanky useless females they are exposed to on a daily basis) so I understand...I just think there are better things to contemplate
It's not so much to me about whether or not the main character is male or female but it's about the journey, the story, the experience. So, so long as it's promoting something positive in our children and ourselves...and getting them to engage and think and we are doing our duty to expose our girls and boys to real life female role models, then for the most part all is well. We're a long way off from perfect and mainstream media is even further behind but it's okay. We can challenge ourselves and our children to look beyond that...to find the treasures in biographies and real people whose stories media never saw fit to animate or develop into a miniseries. We are becoming complacent if our concern is that major film companies are not exposing our daughters to the kind of role models we want them to have. You know?
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I understand the point...I will gladly point out every last flaw with the Princess deal and other females aimed at young girls.
I do not have children of my own, but my cousins girls are like my own and I strive to expose them to strong, capable female role models (especially considering the grand majority of completely skanky useless females they are exposed to on a daily basis) so I understand...I just think there are better things to contemplate
It's not so much to me about whether or not the main character is male or female but it's about the journey, the story, the experience. So, so long as it's promoting something positive in our children and ourselves...and getting them to engage and think and we are doing our duty to expose our girls and boys to real life female role models, then for the most part all is well. We're a long way off from perfect and mainstream media is even further behind but it's okay. We can challenge ourselves and our children to look beyond that...to find the treasures in biographies and real people whose stories media never saw fit to animate or develop into a miniseries. We are becoming complacent if our concern is that major film companies are not exposing our daughters to the kind of role models we want them to have. You know?