The Damsel Is In Distress
My anger has found meaning. Although because it has found focus it's a lot more mellow. So often I look all around me and see the injustices in the world and it gets under my skin. Honestly sometimes I just don't understand discrimination, and sexism and any kind of extremism. Why are people that speak their minds hazed and torn down. This world it makes me angry. Well I learned today that these extreme and narrow mined views exist in what we perceive to be innocent and wholesome. Disney films... with their demonstration of the role a woman should play and that of a man. The woman is ALWAYS the damsel in distress, always needs to be rescued eventually. It doesn't matter how strong or independent they start out in the end they have to give up who they are to summit to a man. Take the little mermaid for example, she gave up her voice for the prince, for the chance of getting him. What does that leave her with her body, it's all she has left, but you know what in the end she gets him. In the original story shes treated like a dog literally, but maybe that actually is a better message for children. Giving up who you are is not a way to earn a prince and we should not be shown this as children. These images shape our perception as children, take beauty and the beast, the beast is highly abusive, but he is forgiven and it becomes her responsibility to change him. NO, that's not right... this is the core foundation to unhealthy relationships so why do we set little kids in front of the TV and tell them to watch. Why should woman believe that they need to be rescued. There is no reason why we can't rescue ourselves. I'm personally offended as to how seductive Disney makes a lot of their female characters, guess what they don't even have to be human. They always have this slow seductive nature to them, with long fluttering eyelashes that absolutely temps, and entrances the male character. This can teach young girls to manipulate and use their looks to get what they want. This is not a good message to send to young impressionable kids. Children that can't even walk yet are exposed to these images, these messages can easily become a part of their subconscious perceptions, but in a world where even Disney is not even innocent where does that leave us?
~Until next time~
Jess
After you read take a look at this, a movie we were watching in class that brought this all to my attention.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mickey-Mouse-Monopoly
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