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Time
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socialized us to believe that for females to be beautiful they need to have the
classic/perfect disney princess face.
Pink is a girl color, red is a boy color. Why do colors have specific orientation
with gender? Colors are used to portray subtle messages about how we need to behave
based on our gender? Women wear pastels like blue, pink, purple, and yellow. Men
wear bold colors such as red, orange, green, and black. A quote from
Color Matters
says; Red is the color of extremes. Its the color of violence, danger, anger, and
adventure.3
Color-Wheel Pro
says Blue symbolizes trust, loyalty, confidence,
intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.4 These stereotypical colors tell us that women are
meant to be soft, calming, soothing, and patient based on the gentle and easy colors they
wear. When men wear bold, aggressive, strong, brave colors, we are made to believe
these traits about their personalities. In the classic animated children's movie the
women clean, cook, and take care of the men, they are designed to be supportive,
patient, and helpful. The men in these films hunt, fight, and support the family, they are
stereotyped to be strong, aggressive, and controlling. We dont necessarily realize it, but
color is one of many ways that people are made to believe gender stereotypes.
Based on the classic characteristics that males and females in these films live by,
we are made to assume certain things about how we must also behave. Males are made
to be aggressive, controlling, powerful, and popular. Females are portrayed as calm,
patient, caring, quiet, dumb, and pretty. An example of this comes straight out of the
movie Peter Pan when Captain Hook says; a jealous woman can be tricked into
anything. This tells us that all women are dumb and can be manipulated by men.
Chateau Heartiste
says; The highest degree of manipulation will come from relatively
young mothers with low conscientiousness and will be applied predominantly to their
daughters. 5 If women have been proven to be more manipulative than men, then why
are we seeing this stereotype occurring in animated children's movies? This widely held
but fixed and oversimplified stereotype is simply there because our past generations
have been taught to believe these things. Characters that arent the perfect image of a
male or female are portrayed as the villains and accomplices. Take Le Fou for example,
Le Fou is a fat, short, ugly man that follows Gaston around constantly getting in the
way. His name is French for
The Madman
, and also a phonetic pun on
The Fool
."6
He is clumsy, gross, and shows children that If you aren't perfect you are completely
imperfect.
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