Which is More Poisonous: The Apple or Our Superstructure? The Disney animated movie Snow White has been watched by generations of young girls who look up to the princess and dream to be just like her. But ultimately, by watching this highly popular film and accepting its values and ideas, young girls around the world grow up to become women accepting of the sexism and phallocentrism that is so prevalent in our society. They suffer the effects of a male dominated culture that degrades their bodies, voices, and existence by being forced to swallow the prideful taunts of rape culture, significantly lower salaries than male associates, and constant criticism of not being feminine enough. If the scenes and lyrics in the movie are picked apart,
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She is allowed to stay in the home so long as she cooks and cleans for the seven dwarves while they are away working in the mines gaining their livelihoods. This propagates and normalizes the belief that women belong in the home playing house and raising children, while men are expected to venture out into the workplace and earn a living. Snow White’s cheerful acceptance of her destined role, without so much of a complaint, is also alarming as it transforms her acceptance of an inferior position into a virtue. This portrayed gender role of a woman is the ideal standard, being unwilling to fight or think for herself and having a complacent, helpless personality. This idea has affected the way women of all ages have come to understand their womanhood; they must conform themselves to the silently, helpless and needy standard of womanhood to gain male attention.This idea has impacted generations of young girls to accept the sexist gender role expected of them and normalizes the guidelines and qualities of an ideal woman, so much so, that when they are grown women they become complacent and accepting of the role society has deemed fit for them and conform to the female standard of the classic woman with feminine traits of demureness, empathy, and gentleness if society dictates they are not feminine
She is allowed to stay in the home so long as she cooks and cleans for the seven dwarves while they are away working in the mines gaining their livelihoods. This propagates and normalizes the belief that women belong in the home playing house and raising children, while men are expected to venture out into the workplace and earn a living. Snow White’s cheerful acceptance of her destined role, without so much of a complaint, is also alarming as it transforms her acceptance of an inferior position into a virtue. This portrayed gender role of a woman is the ideal standard, being unwilling to fight or think for herself and having a complacent, helpless personality. This idea has affected the way women of all ages have come to understand their womanhood; they must conform themselves to the silently, helpless and needy standard of womanhood to gain male attention.This idea has impacted generations of young girls to accept the sexist gender role expected of them and normalizes the guidelines and qualities of an ideal woman, so much so, that when they are grown women they become complacent and accepting of the role society has deemed fit for them and conform to the female standard of the classic woman with feminine traits of demureness, empathy, and gentleness if society dictates they are not feminine