Relieving The Invisible About G-rated Disney Movies
Once upon a time Fiona married Lord Farquaad and Shrek married an ogre, Cinderella didn’t fit into the glass slipper, …show more content…
Disney movies do a lot of what West & Zimmerman call Doing Gender. Gender is something everyone grows up just doing it, and not knowing why they do it. There are different rules between men’s bathrooms and women’s bathrooms. Humans grow up being taught what those different gender roles are and they think nothing about it. Men are taught to be masculine and powerful, while women are taught to do deference. Most men have the highest positions in work areas. Monsters University did the opposite. The leader of the university was a woman not a man. In the Disney movie Shrek Forever After, the gender roles were just the same as society. The ruler, Rumplestiltskin, was a man trying to be masculine and prove to his kingdom he had all of the power. Women are meant for all of the household work, take care of the kids, etc. Men do all of the workoutside. In the beginning of Shrek Forever After, Shrek was feeding the kids, cleaning the bathrooms, and doing the manly work. He was getting frustrated because he was always getting called to do some kind of work. Now a days men do participate more on helping with the kids and cleaning and women help a little with doing outside work. Gender roles have mixed together now versus the past. Gender roles can be played in many ways but if people look at the big picture most gender roles all connect in many