http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byaMd_PNyIY
I forget how to post videos, but I thought this was really cool because I love fairytales and i love disney movies, but its just crazy to think how gender and racial biased they are! Like a typical fairytale, the girl is looked to as helpless and beautiful, always in need of her dashing prince charming. The man is the hero. In almost any disney movie the “important” characters are white, and if they aren’t, like in Pocahontas, the “non-white” characters roles are full of styreotypes. It is sad that this is what kids are watching. I know that I grew up with a bookshelf of beloved disney movies, but it is crazy to see how much that affected my perception of gender roles, sexuality, and racial characteristics. Watch and see what I mean…
Kirstyn said,
April 19, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
Yeah! And here’s another one that will make you a little bit sad: remember Babar? It’s sooo about the rich white folk conquering a land that belongs to others. In grad-English speak, we call that “colonialism”. To think about texts and their colonial implications is called “post-colonial”.