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"You can't marry a man you just met." (“Frozen”). Pretty sound advice really, yet odd to hear it come from Disney of all places. Don't get me wrong, Disney isn't a bad company. There aren't many other businesses in the world that can achieved the global recognizability and influence of the Disney company. With hands in more countries than we can truly know and a small army of genre defining and societal dominating works, they're a producing powerhouse and a cultural juggernaut. Even after nearly 100 years Disney maintains the same high level of quality, polish, and iconic style and is currently experiencing a resurgence now in the 2010s with movies such as Brave, Tangled, Frozen, and other singular adjective titles.
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For the purposes of this paper, Politically Correct (PC) culture is the political and social trend towards replacing offensive or prejudice language with more inclusive terms and ideas as well as the push for media to more representative and respectful of other demographics. Body positivity, prefered pronouns, and criticism of cultural appropriation are all forms of PC culture and have all helped many people to feel more welcome. Exclusionary language and insensitive media are certainly not as significant as institutionalized prejudices. However, they do contribute to hostile environments and perpetuate negative ideas. Even mentions of stereotypes through micro-aggressions are shows to notably impact performance and attitude (Beilock). Fashion magazines and fats joke lead to bullying, negative body image, and eating disorders. Transphobic language and disrespected pronouns ostracize the genderqueer and force them into the closet. Racist Halloween costumes and white people with dreadlocks mock other cultures and turn people into a neat little commodity they can buy. PC culture seeks correct this and has accomplished a lot in changing language, media, and public …show more content…
Under the new ideologies of PC culture, the Disney formula used in most of their older movies is criticized for many things. More often than not the solution to a character’s internal struggle is to fall in love (Lunny). Belle from Beauty and the Beast wishes for “adventure in the great wild somewhere” yet only ever gets married by the end of the movie. The “true love” that saves the day is founded on little to no chemistry and usually only lasted a day, giving girls unrealistic ideas about love as seen in Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and many more. Female leads are weak and are typically reduced to damsels in distress in the climax like in The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. Portrayal of other cultures are inaccurate at best and problematic at worst such as Native Americans in Pocahontas and Romani in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And you may think this paper is leading up to an explanation of how Disney addressed all these criticisms, but they didn’t. They just want you to think they
"You can't marry a man you just met." (“Frozen”). Pretty sound advice really, yet odd to hear it come from Disney of all places. Don't get me wrong, Disney isn't a bad company. There aren't many other businesses in the world that can achieved the global recognizability and influence of the Disney company. With hands in more countries than we can truly know and a small army of genre defining and societal dominating works, they're a producing powerhouse and a cultural juggernaut. Even after nearly 100 years Disney maintains the same high level of quality, polish, and iconic style and is currently experiencing a resurgence now in the 2010s with movies such as Brave, Tangled, Frozen, and other singular adjective titles.
Yet despite …show more content…
For the purposes of this paper, Politically Correct (PC) culture is the political and social trend towards replacing offensive or prejudice language with more inclusive terms and ideas as well as the push for media to more representative and respectful of other demographics. Body positivity, prefered pronouns, and criticism of cultural appropriation are all forms of PC culture and have all helped many people to feel more welcome. Exclusionary language and insensitive media are certainly not as significant as institutionalized prejudices. However, they do contribute to hostile environments and perpetuate negative ideas. Even mentions of stereotypes through micro-aggressions are shows to notably impact performance and attitude (Beilock). Fashion magazines and fats joke lead to bullying, negative body image, and eating disorders. Transphobic language and disrespected pronouns ostracize the genderqueer and force them into the closet. Racist Halloween costumes and white people with dreadlocks mock other cultures and turn people into a neat little commodity they can buy. PC culture seeks correct this and has accomplished a lot in changing language, media, and public …show more content…
Under the new ideologies of PC culture, the Disney formula used in most of their older movies is criticized for many things. More often than not the solution to a character’s internal struggle is to fall in love (Lunny). Belle from Beauty and the Beast wishes for “adventure in the great wild somewhere” yet only ever gets married by the end of the movie. The “true love” that saves the day is founded on little to no chemistry and usually only lasted a day, giving girls unrealistic ideas about love as seen in Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and many more. Female leads are weak and are typically reduced to damsels in distress in the climax like in The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. Portrayal of other cultures are inaccurate at best and problematic at worst such as Native Americans in Pocahontas and Romani in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And you may think this paper is leading up to an explanation of how Disney addressed all these criticisms, but they didn’t. They just want you to think they