SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: B-Boying
Bhakti Panchal
Disney Clip Extra Credit
3 December 17
Disney films do show stereotypical imagoes of sex, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity.
When you look at Disney movies you realize how little the figure of a female changes. You still
have the same highly sexualized female body with the big breasts, slim waist, and long
fluttering eyelashes, expressions, and seductiveness. These images seem very similar over the
years and even in animal form. This presents people with a kind of notion of what feminism is
about. When kids are young they think what it’s like to be a woman and they focus on the
dramatic images they can see which shapes kid’s images on how they want to look. Also, in
movies it is usually the girl who needs to be rescued from a guy. In the world of Disney, not only
females get into trouble easily, they also lack the ability to save their own lives.
Along with race and ethnicity, for example, it is almost expected that playing the Latino
will end up doing something they should not do and apparently Disney makes dogs Latino. The
crows, moneys, orangutan are usually the ones that are breakdancing, hip-hop, have this like of
slow slur speech pattern. In the movie, Lady and the Tramp, the cats clearly have those
stereotypical Asian features. They have slanted eyes, the buck teeth, and the very heavy accent.
They also depicted as cunning, sinister and manipulative. After watching these clips, it really
makes me realize how Disney portrays people and animals in a very different way. I never had
ever thought about Disney eing raist or showing a stereotypial priness ody eause that’s
show kids just learn, they get an idea that this is how a woman should look and have a nice
body and be pretty, I have less appreciation for Disney now after watching these video clips.
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Disney films do show stereotypical imagoes of sex, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity. When you look at disney movies you realize how little the figure of a female changes. You still have the same highly sexualized female body with the big breasts, slim waist, and long fluttering eyelashes, expressions, and seductiveness. These images seem very similar over the years and even in animal form. This presents people with a kind of notion of what feminism is about. When kids are young they think what it"s like to be a woman and they focus on the dramatic images they can see which shapes kid"s images on how they want to look. Also, in movies it is usually the girl who needs to be rescued from a guy. In the world of disney, not only females get into trouble easily, they also lack the ability to save their own lives.
