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Kathy Maio is a...
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feminist journalist in Boston MA
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Maio is worried about...
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the racial and cultural messages in Disney's movies
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In snow white the message is...
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... young women are naturally happy homemakers; they wait until a man comes along to give them life
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in the LITTLE MERMAID the message is...
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... "keep quiet and be beautiful"
-Ariel gets her voice back and keeps her prince; but she loses everything else |
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the only improvement made in a feminist way to BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is...
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... Belle likes reading
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Beauty and the beast also says that if a young woman is pretty and sweet-natured....
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... she can change an abusive man into a kind gentle man
-(if belle lived in real world she would be a battered wife) |
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in ALADDIN...
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evil man Jafar is darker skin
-aladdin is good and paler american looking |
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in the LION KING...
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... white amercians play the good people and Scar suggest homosexuality
-lionesses suggest that women are weak and need a man |
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in POCAHANTAS...
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... ends in peace bw natives and colonists
-in reality: many natives die; pocahantas taken to England; dies of homesickness |
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in MULAN...
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... men still have power over women
- best thing to happen to them is to marry the hero and live "happily ever after" |
