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The effects on society

When a baby is born people always ask is it a boy or a girl, this is a person’s gender which they get labeled with before they are even born. The gender of a person stays with them for life; however the sexuality of a person can change.

In society we have various different sexuality’s, the most common ones to be straight or gay. Nevertheless in Disney films there is only one sexuality that we see, which is straight (men& women relationships).

Children from a very young age will watch Disney films and see that the ‘norm’ on all of the films is a straight relationship. Children’s imaginations are all over the place when they are young and from watching Disney films it gives them this ‘perfect’ world that they would like to live. However life is not like a Disney film. So we are giving children false hope when they are watching these Disney films.

Also Disney gives men and women very typical character roles. People in this day and age do not see these roles as to be positive for our children. Children are not encouraged to take up the typical role of women, including cleaning, sowing and being the stay at home mother. Instead we are encouraging our children to explore something that they like, may this be building, sports, baking, painting.

Disney gives us quite a rounded image of people. A girl only needs to wait for their prince to come and find them. The prince will be handsome and perfect; he will be a protector for his family. The women only need to worry about their looks. An evil person will be ugly and wearing black.

Again these figures that Disney creates has an impact on children’s believes about people. For example if someone is ugly they are evil and unkind. Which is not the case in society, for no matter what you wear or how you look doesn’t make you a bad person.

Men in Disney films such as, Tarzan, peter pan and Hercules are all strong and handsome. They come in and save the women. This does give boys a good role model to look up to as these men are kind and do what they can to protect their family. However you do not need to be handsome or strong to look after your family.

“we like to raise or daughters like sons, but not our sons like daughters” this is a very strong comment because in the majority of Disney films men have the lead role and are the heroes. Whereas the women are at home or the ones in danger. So there for society believes that women need to become stronger and look up to men.

This affects society because children will stop to accept people of a different race of gender. Children may being to un include people who are not 'handsome' or 'pretty'. Some may not even accept the opposite gender to play a game with them because they are a 'girl' or 'boy'.

Gender stereotypes

Men in Disney, also hold the same characteristics and hold the same roles in each different Disney film. For example;

In 2013 the film 'frozen' was brought out by Disney. The storyline of this film has the women (princess) as the lead character and she takes control of her own life. She thinks she falls in love at first sight and plans to get married, the same story line to most other Disney films. However she then goes off out into the mountains by herself and meets a man who tells her 'you can't marry someone you just met'.

Frozen shows us that Disney is changing and giving children the hope that you don’t need to find love at first sight. You have to get out there and do what you can for your family.

Racial stereotypes

Looking into racism, it is surprisingly quite strong in Disney films. In the film lady and the tramp, there is a dog which is very small and speaks in a Latino accent. He is seen as the mutt in the film, he steels a car and has said to be a ‘bog eyed creep’ by one of the other dogs. Lady in the tramp also has two Siamese cats, they have a Chinese accent have the same features as the Chinese. There are of course many different race of people in the world and the films are trying to portray this in the films but Disney are not giving the impression that these people are nice, instead they are making the characters to be sly and nasty just because they are different and not the same as the other ‘perfect’ characters.

Another racist Disney film is jungle book. The crows have Latino characteristics, small with Spanish hats on and slow speech. They all dance in the tango or the fox trot, wiggling their hips and clapping. This gives us an impression that if we were to visit Spain we would see these Spanish people dancing in this way. Which in some cases is true but it is not something that they do all of the time.

The monkeys in jungle book take the role of African Americans. They speak with the same kind of accent. The most racist part of the monkeys is when they sing ‘I want to be like you’. The monkeys sing to Mogley ‘I want to be like you’ which again gives the impression that African Americans (the monkeys) do not want to be the person they are, that they want to be like white people.

In the Lion King the hyenas feel like they take the role of African Americans. The role that the hyenas take in the Lion king is not a very good one. They are seen as bad animals and give off this cackling laugh, which could scare some children, encouraging them to be scared of African Americans.

It is very rare to see a character in a Disney film who is human and of a different race. There are no more than dark skinned princesses and the same for the princes. If there are any characters that are of a different race they tend to play animals.

The Effects of Disney Cartoon Films on Children’s Development and their Relation to Society.

Disney has made over 200 films since 1937 (reference), in recent years there has been a lot of negative commentary about the impact of these films on the development of children in society.

The majority of Disney cartoon films (films) portray stereotypical gender roles for their characters whether they are human, animal or android representations (Snow White, Wall E, The Lion King). The first Disney film to be released was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, (probably a reference style for referencing films), Snow White being a vulnerable girl with an evil step mother and a handsome prince to save her, a story line that can be referenced in most of the Disney films that have followed (reference).

Gender & Sexuality

Disney portrays its male and female characters as stereotypical gender ‘norms’. Female characters are typically depicted as carer, nurturer or “domestic goddess”, helpless and vulnerable, whilst male roles are defined by independence, strength and courage, protector of women and fighter of evil. Some people in this day and age do not consider the traditional roles Disney characters portray to be positive images for our children. Females in an English society are not encouraged to take up the typical role of women (cleaning, sowing and being the stay at home mother) and males are encouraged to participate in child care and domestic chores. English society is encouraging our children to explore the things that they like, irrespective of gender, so girls may pursue building & sports whilst boys might peruse baking or painting.

In today’s society we find all types of people who can be labelled by their age, race, creed, colour, gender and sexuality.

When a baby is born people ask; ‘boy or a girl?’, this is a person’s gender which they are labelled with at birth or for some, before they are even born. The gender of a person stays with them for life however, the sexuality of a person develops as they mature. Disney characters are always heterosexual and this may have an impact on children believing that heterosexuality is what is expected and accepted by society, when in fact they may find themselves in a non traditional family setting or have feelings that do not mimic that of the romanticised fiction found in Disney films.

Children may find themselves confused and unable to identify with the characters of years gone by. This could affect a child development because they may stop to accept people of a different race of gender. Children may not include other children or people who are not considered 'handsome' or 'pretty'. Some may not even accept the opposite gender to play a game with them because they are a 'girl' or 'boy'. ( this is a bit of a random statement that does not fit, what are you trying to say?

Disney films typically portray male and female characters falling in love and living happily ever after (usually after intervention by an evil or wicked character), this offers children a romantic sense of the world that is not based in reality and encourages them to believe that their world can be like the reality of the film in whatever way they imagine. Children could then experience feeling s of false hope when they imaging their prince ‘saving’ them and falling in love when, in the real world there is no knight in shining armour to rescue them from their own evil, real or received (poverty, hunger, abuse).

Disney gives us quite a rounded image of the people values they wanted to create. A girl only needs to wait for their prince to come and find them. The prince will be handsome and perfect; he will be a protector for his family. The women only need to worry about their looks. An evil person will be ugly and wearing black.

The characters Disney creates have the potential to have an impact on children’s believes about people. For example, if someone is perceived as being ugly they are evil and unkind, which is not the case in society, for no matter what you wear or how you look, it doesn’t make you a bad person.

Men in Disney films such as Tarzan, Peter Pan and Hercules are all strong and handsome. They come in and save the women. These heroes give boys a good role model to look up to, as these men are kind and do what they can to protect their family. However, you do not need to be handsome or strong to look after your family.

“we like to raise or daughters like sons, but not our sons like daughters” (reference), this is a very strong comment (what is the relevance to this essay of this quote?) because in the majority of Disney films men have the lead role and are the heroes (examples). Whereas the women are at home or the ones in danger (examples). This can be interpreted as women being week and needing to become stronger and reliant on men.

Disney is very stereotypical in their films and they do portray a lot of strong gender roles for both men and women. They send of a lot of signals to children, which contribute to a child’s beliefs and expectations as well as imagination. Society is affected by this because people start to un include people who are not ‘perfect’. Women and men also have begun to live up to the expected role of their gender and not explore and challenge themselves.

Gender- female

• All the women are princesses

• They all have long hair

• All of the 'princesses' are very slim

• The women's handsome prince charming always finds them (Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel)

• They all take orders from the men, except from snow white who has to follow the orders of her wicked step mother and sisters.

• All of the women in the Disney films follow the typical roles of women (Washing,Cleaning,Tidying)

• A lot of them find love at first sight (Ariel, Snow White)

• Perfect and flawless

• The mother

• The homeworker

• The wife

Male

• All the men in Disney are tall and slim

• They are heroic and save their 'princess'

• All take the lead role in their relationships

• Masculine(Peter pan, Tarzan, Hercules)

• Violence (Beauty and the beast)

• Heroes (Buzz and woody from toy story always saves the day for the other toys)

There are three main roles that the men in Disney films take, these areː

1. Dumb, stout and commercial

2. Wicked and cruel

3. Fascinating and anonymous prizes (men of don’t have names just good looks)

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