Do you think disney fairytales promote a version of adulthood to influence young girls?

Question

* women needing to be saved

* women inferior to men

* Beauty is everything

* Marraige solves everything

* Disney brews false ideals

Answer 1

Yes, I do and it's not only for the reasons other people here have mentioned. Many Disney fairytales are heavily sanitized versions of the original stories. By making the stories blander and sanitizing them, the morals of the original stories are lost. Many old fairytales were written as lessons for children as to what could happen to them if they misbehaved. Now, in the Disney movies, you get a beautiful young woman who gets swept off her feet by her prince charming and then they live happily after after.

Answer 2

No. It is fantasy. Make believe. If anything our society promotes a version of adulthood that says that men are inferior and stupid. Not the other way around.

Answer 3

yes, I think it does.

Answer 4

hum never really thought about it, but I think that image came before disney ever did those kind of movies,,

my daughter says the little mermaid makes her think that,,so it could be.

Answer 5

Yes I agree with you.  But fairy tales are for kids, and by the time kids reach adulthood they should be well aware that they are fables and fables alone.  Some young girls cling to these fairy tales via reinforcement form parents and other loved ones.  But let's not blame Uncle Walt for just bringing wholesome family entertainment into millions of homes.

Answer 6

Of course.  And it is not just Disney, but a majority of fairy tales.  Disney did not make up Little Mermaid, Cinderella, or Aladdin. Tales like these have always been around.  They teach passivity and submissiveness.  Sleeping Beauty (ultimate in passivity).  Cinderella, waits for the prince to come to her.  People think they are just fairy tales, but they are tools of socialization.  Little girls want to be princesses because they think they should be.  That is also why when they play house they want to be the mother.  It may not seem important because they are just make believe but they help create gender roles in our society (along with other things of course)

If you want a different version of fairy tales find some books with feminist fairy tales

Answer 7

*Women need to be saved. Men are bigger, hornier, and have a much more killer instinct than women do; so men are going to cause the damage. If another man is under the impression that a woman is "his", he is going to do whatever he can to protect her.

*Women aren't inferior to men, that is too broad of a based term, and women use it to say that being wanted so much its worth risking your life to rescue is a bad thing.

*Beauty certainly is not everything, but will you go down on a guy that has acne, man-b***s, and an odor to him? of course not. women are just as picky as men are

*Marriage in essence is a religious bond between man and wife saying that god doesn't want anyone to be promiscuous anymore.

*what are you going to do? tell disney to make a movie about 2 unattractive life-partners (MW, or WW) who are unmarried and are jointly invested in a business together that doesn't end in a kissing scene?

Answer 8

I don't believe they promote those ideas but I do think the promote a false mindset in young children.

Beauty is everything

Disobedience

No matter what you do everything will work out in the end.

Answer 9

I noticed that the girls in the fairy tales get married when they are like 16.  I don't think this will influence young girls in the long run, they'll be influenced to "make believe" these kinds of things at a young age but I figure whatever goes on in their house will influence them much more than a cartoon.

Answer 10

no, i dont believe that those things will really affect your adulthood for girls. i'm not saying it never will but i dont belive it does.

when girls first hear about these fairytales, they dont analyze these facts. then they go through a denial phase, where they claim that they "hate" princesses and fairy tales. every girl goes through that. then there's the "i love pricnesses" phase in the later teen years, but that's not really affecting much but the stupid teen age weirdness.

i think most women don't really think of fairy tales like that.

if they do, they shouldn't, because it would only make their life more complicated and unsatisfying.

Answer 11

I have avoided buying my daughter (one year old) anything that says "Princess" or "Daddy's Princess" or any similar theme. (And trust me, you can't turn around in a children's clothing store without seeing something that says "Princess".) I don't like the message.

When she gets a little older, if she finds the Disney Princess theme irresistible, I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it, but we will certainly have a talk about what's good and bad about the "princess" concept.

Answer 12

I see nothing wrong with a little fantasy for little girls...and these movies, images are not meant to be used as a blue print for life, just a  wonderful diversion and escape into a fantasy, grown up issues will take over one way or the other in adulthood but children should be allowed to be children without all the BS PC.

And Disney does not, nor ever has, "brew false ideals" that is just ridiculous.

Answer 13

I agree. Almost all of these fairytales end when 'they were happily married forever'; almost all of the damsels are in distress and they need to be saved. Also, all protagonists per se are 'beautiful' - except for a rare few. The sooner the kids realize the difference between fantasy and reality, the better.

For example, I was visiting my relatives this weekend, and I asked their kid what she wanted to be when she grew up. She replied 'I want to be a princess'. I looked at her parents in disbelief. But its probably ok for now, since she still believes Santa drops in to drop gifts for her...

Answer 14

I don't think Disney films do promote the idea that women are inferior to men.  I don't see any signs of inferiority in Disney heroines.  It is true that many Disney films feature the heroine being saved by the hero, but that is how many fairy tales do go, it isn't Disney's fault.  After all, they gave us 'Mulan' which had a heroine who is a veritable superwoman.

And most Disney fairytale films end with the hero and heroine getting married because that is how most fairy tales end.  What sort of ending would you suggest? 'They got divorced and lived happily ever after?'

Answer 15

Most of those disney films are made years and years ago, the 1930s-50's? I think kids like those films and play games, but then they grow up and learn for themselves.

I love the little mermaid.

Answer 16

yea, they do kind-of miss-lead the little girls who watch them, but once they grow up they will realize life isn't like a farytale, so I don't think it's doing too much harm.