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velvetpage) wrote2009-06-10 02:59 am
velvetpage) wrote2009-06-10 02:59 am
It's the middle of the night
And I have links for you. So there!
Dear Pixar, please make a movie about a girl who isn't a princess
On Rape and Men, which all the wonderful men on my friends list still need to read. I truly believe that most of you are That Guy, and like some of the commenters said, it's pretty sad that I feel the need to acknowledge guys as good just for not being raging dickheads.
Dear Pixar, please make a movie about a girl who isn't a princess
On Rape and Men, which all the wonderful men on my friends list still need to read. I truly believe that most of you are That Guy, and like some of the commenters said, it's pretty sad that I feel the need to acknowledge guys as good just for not being raging dickheads.
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Animated films get ideas into a child's mind "through the backdoor," if you will. Yes, there are real live women out there who are great role models. But not everybody notices that.
But having the idea of a woman as strong, independent, and able to chart her own path in life, and slipping it into a child's subconscious through animated entertainment gets the idea in without anybody pointing it out. It also gets the idea in in spite of nobody pointing it out. A parent who doesn't believe in equality may ignore the message in the cartoon because it is a cartoon.
(That's my opinion. Here's a grain of salt.)