April 2012
latetothepartyblog asked: Hey there, big fan. I have a question about what you feel about feminism, love and story. Do you think that you can have a strong female character and a love story can co-exist? Does a love story automatically negate a female character being strong and independent?
Anonymous asked: i just want to say: you are the best. :)
I was in the Disney store with my boyfriend and...
malenkydevil:
But then really sad, because I’m twenty six and there STILL isn’t a Disney Princess that looks like me.
People like to say movies like Princess and the Frog are enough. That we have Jasmine and Mulan and Pocahontas…
It isn’t. Not when Disney/Pixar keeps pumping out the whiteness. You can’t just throw POC one bone (and have it also be problematic) and then pretend that’s good...
but how can I do my homework last minute when...
team-artemis replied to your post: aha I love those days when I go on tumblr and my…
i’m awake. and i love you.
aha I love those days when I go on tumblr and my favorite people are on it/awake and I’m like “I’m glad they don’t seem to follow normal sleep patterns considering we live on different continents woohoo” but why must I go to language class soon? :( BIS BALD :/ ich muss lernen…
"so tell me something"
blueeyesaryandragon:
feministdisney:
blueeyesaryandragon:
Gosh, it drives me insane when people use simple children’s movies to provide an example for gender inequality, or really any inequality for that matter.
yeah it just makes me all sorts of uncomfortable it’s almost as if kids pick up on social cues or something
just kidding they are like bacterium they will not do that it’s not...
i’m still mildly drunk now and need to go to bed but I look forward to reblogging responses tomorrow when people don’t expect it so that they sign on and suddenly they have a ton of reblogs of people disagreeing with them
some days I am slightly evil maybe… :P
blueeyesaryandragon:
Gosh, it drives me insane when people use simple children’s movies to provide an example for gender inequality, or really any inequality for that matter.
yeah it just makes me all sorts of uncomfortable it’s almost as if kids pick up on social cues or something
just kidding they are like bacterium they will not do that it’s not like their brains are geared to...
blueeyesaryandragon:
feministdisney:
blueeyesaryandragon:
spentoxygen:
badhawaiianshirts:
feministdisney:
“But indeed,” Bo Beep said, “It is a trope, as well as an indicator of a lack of basic female representation, as judged using the Bechdel Test.”
movie trivia from here:
Bo Peep’s shrinking role in the series after the first film is explained in The Art of Toy Story 3. Bo Peep...
Anonymous asked: There is such a wide gap in between willing and conscious weight loss for whatever that person's reasons are, and being encouraged by everything or one around you to slip into bad habits. Trading off a form of health for another - say going into biggest loser because your weight is causing complications - is not right. I'm fat and bulimic and I'm only now recovering. A fat person...
Anonymous asked: I've always wondered though, what about in the cases of people who are overweight and it is causing them severe health issues, like maybe high cholesterol levels, or something? Because the people on Biggest Loser- isn't the case usually that they've reached points where their weight is badly affecting their health?
“The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)
I will always reblog this because it is so so important.
(via infinitetransit)
I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that...
I have missed warm nights-
even the best cold nights seemed muted by comparison- on warm nights there is an energy, crackling at the edges like a summer storm is coming through everyone
Feminist Disney: a cartoon is not just a cartoon →
desmoulicious:
feministdisney:
desmoulicious:
feministdisney:
Saw this gem in the reblog of that last image:
theheartwithin said: It’s everyone finding something to complain about: the world is chock full of whiney complainers; & unconfident girls will always blame their lack of confidence on something. anyone who’s afraid of…
Artists shouldn’t have to change their work, and...
Feminist Disney: a cartoon is not just a cartoon →
desmoulicious:
feministdisney:
Saw this gem in the reblog of that last image:
theheartwithin said: It’s everyone finding something to complain about: the world is chock full of whiney complainers; & unconfident girls will always blame their lack of confidence on something. anyone who’s afraid of…
Artists shouldn’t have to change their work, and what they find attractive, to make...
it's a good point
eschergirls replied to your post: a cartoon is not just a cartoon
People act like self-confidence grows on trees. Isn’t it weird ppl with the most self-confidence issues tend to be the ones that don’t fit in with societal messages and expectations of what people should be like, or look like, or act like?
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a cartoon is not just a cartoon
Saw this gem in the reblog of that last image:
theheartwithin said: It’s everyone finding something to complain about: the world is chock full of whiney complainers; & unconfident girls will always blame their lack of confidence on something. anyone who’s afraid of expectations of a cartoon needs to check themselves
This is not directed really at this individual, but this attitude is...
I am so tired of critical thinking because I...
waltdisneyconfessions:
“I am so tired of hearing how the Disney Princesses create unrealistic expectations for girls. I grew up watching them and I turned out fine.”
I grew up watching them and I turned out just fine, so naturally my experience is the only valid one and invalidates all others no matter how much thought or research people have put into examining this,
and logically me...
Anonymous asked: Who is your favorite female lead in Miyazaki movies?
honeybeeshepherd asked: I noticed you were talking about happy-endings/marriage in films and I wanted to share a story with you: When I was little and I watched The Sound of Music, I always stopped it at the wedding because I thought that was the end of the film! I didn't see the rest until I was nearly a teenager (it killed me that Rolf was a Nazi!). Obviously I was convinced that the proper end must be a wedding -...
Anonymous asked: As an East-Asian, I found Disney's rendition of Mulan egregiously offensive. Yet I respect those who were able to watch it and find consolation in it, which made me think of a question. Would it be wrong if somebody liked and enjoyed something as racist, orientalist, a and reductive as Mulan, even if they didn't know?
Anonymous asked: If it's okay, I'd like to piggyback off of that Mulan ask and say it did the same thing for me. I'm not male or female, but both, and as a little "girl" I became obsessed with that movie. It didn't come right out and tell me it's okay to be genderqueer, but it did tell me it's okay to not want the role society has placed you in, and I'm thankful for...
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eschergirls asked: This isn't meant as a counterpoint to the complaints about queer-erasure in Disney films, but the discussion made me think of how much Mulan means to me as an Asian trans girl. The song "Reflection" was the first time I felt some way of expressing how I felt (I had no idea that trans people existed back then so I had no idea how to place my feelings). I know Disney was in no way...
Anonymous asked: I really want to see a movie with a badass, female Knight. I don't know what the plot would be, but she'd end up with another woman. Also, she'd totally lead the other Knights because, dude, she's a badass. Hell, maybe all the Knights would be female. And not all white, of course.
marrymejasonsegel asked: I'm straight, but when I was a kid, I thought I was too fat and ugly to deserve a happy ending :/
Anonymous asked: I'm the first queer who mentioned marriage and I'd also like the pretty wedding. :) I guess part of what I was trying to say is that movies often leave me feeling excluded, especially when women's roles (and triumphs) are so often tied to a man. It frustrates me that I don't get to see other patterns for happiness. That doesn't mean that I won't have nice happy things...
Anonymous asked: While I understand all the other queers... screw that. If I get married, I want a spring wedding with two flowing dresses and manymany flowers. I won't let other people take away my happiness.
Anonymous asked: TW, sorry this is kind of unrelated to your blog but i thought maybe you could help me. I was raped about 2 years ago by a school mate in high school, I was blacked out drunk and he had been drinking too so at the time I didn't know I was raped, but I knew i had been taken advantage of. I never reported because all odds of anything happening were strongly against me, (the DA didn't even...
Anonymous asked: ditto on that. i'm a lesbian and since i was a kid i saw stories of men and women marrying each other and was always wondering, where do i fit in? let's be real, after being actively excluded from religious settings and then leaving the church of my own decision...i really can't imagine it. it would be nice to get married, but it wouldn't be the way straight people imagine it....
trilliamsdotcom asked: the marriage anon is right: as a gay male i cannot fathom how a beautiful wedding and closing kiss for me could even be executed properly without feeling extremely awkward and out of place. The courthouse it is.
Anonymous asked: One of the reasons I get frustrated by the happy ending=heterosexual marriage aspect of so many movies (and not just Disney ones) is that it leaves no space for me, as a lesbian, to imagine how I could have a happy ending too.
““Fat” is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants...”
– J.K. Rowling (via feministpizza)
On privilege →
ladyatheist:
“When the word ‘privilege’ crops up people often react as though they’re being asked to translate Marx from the original into Xhosa, or alternatively as though they’re being accused of some sort of feudal overlord existence, whipping peasants while feeding off the fat of their babies. Recognising privilege is not a hardship, or an attack on freedoms. It’s just a grown up,...
"dear supposed "radical feminists" of tumblr,"
anamlaqayin:
stop treating women who happen to have been born with male genitalia like shit.
they are women, just like you and me; they are not making a mockery of our fight as women just because they are biologically male.
sincerely,
anamlaqayin
your heart is definitely in the right place but the language here is questionable?? Unless someone specifically requests it, a woman with a...
curiouscarson asked: In the movies, the heroine faces many obstacles (Tangled: Rapunzel journeys to the lanterns, realizes her identity, and challenges Mother Gothel; Mulan: She defeats the Huns, accepts herself, and mends her relationship with her father.) After everything else, she’ll marry her love interest (or at least stay with him). Then, it will cut to happy ending, reinforcing the idea that we need a guy...
soklear asked: So what's with the weird Avatar?
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-puts youtube playlist on-
-starts looking through Disney tag for something to comment on-
-Closer by Nine Inch Nails starts playing while I’m looking at GIFs of Disney princesses and other cutesy Disney things-
-it is a very weird combo and yet seems to go together well… yeah I’m gonna stop this is weeeird!! haha-
thesarahsaurusrex asked: So, I just wanted to thank you for helping me to educate myself about Native American warbonnets. Now whenever I see a picture of a girl posing in a field while wearing one, I don't just think, "oh, hey, nice picture." Now I mentally scream, "OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING NO TAKE IT OFF."
unknowablewoman:
I just find it hilariously sad that fat people are accused of ~glorifying obesity~ simply for existing.
In other words: go hide yourself away, fatty. We don’t want to see you.
If living, breathing, trying not to hate myself, exposing my FAT ROLLS!1, and being unashamed of my body in all its disproportionate weirdness means that I’m glorifying obesity, then fuck yes, I am...
to be clear about the last post, it refers (or at least, I refer it now to refer) to other posts I have written/ what other people have discussed about the motivations of female villains (often propelled by a desire for beauty, youth, et cetera, that is reflective of larger social expectations and shamings applied to women but not so much men). [check has this been asked before for more]
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Anonymous asked: Today I realized that I have never seen male antagonists with the same motivations of female antagonists in Disney films (youth, beauty, attention, etc)
Anonymous asked: What's your opinion on how the blue and pink was used in Sleeping Beauty? (I looked at your Sleeping Beauty review already and it wasn't mentioned)
