I imagine this make mass-producing dolls much easier.
I grew up with Disney âmagicâ
The wonderful animation,
and extraordinary nature shows.
Todayâs Dizny merchandise machine
and mind-f#ck television trash must
have Walt spinning in his cryo-chamber.
Their CGI mesmerizing, over-stimulated,
kiddy shows are a shameless shill for consumption.
I think there is a genuine issue at the core of this article â there is clearly far more physical diversity among animated male protagonists than among animated female protagonists â but thereâs also some heavy selection bias used to make the article work.
There are other female characters in modern Disney/Pixar movies who donât have the standard âDisney Faceâ â Colette in Ratatouille and Edna Mode in the Incredibles come immediately to mind.
Like I said, there definitely is an issue with Disney and physical diversity among its female characters⌠itâs just not as cut and dry as this article makes it seem.
It is if you restrict it to protagonists. Which is more significant than diversity in secondary characters.
Not all the male characters she uses are protagonists though.
#FTFY
Did anyone else notice that the horse in Frozen was clearly just a copy of the horse Maximus in Tangled?
A lot of this clearly comes from recycling character models to save time and money. There is clearly a scene in Tangled on the boat with the lanterns, where they recycled a facial expression that they used with Violet in the Incredibles as well.
If you take a look at the Boing-Boing post about âThe Princess Who Saved Herselfâ, youâll see the same thing! Even when someone tries to liberate the feminine, the same stupid-cute face seems indulged.
Next article should be titled: BoingBoingâs obsession with Disney.
I⌠am not really seeing an issue here? In her example I see many variations on a theme. While I guess there is some elements that remain similar, there are a lot of elements that are different, while retaining a similar style.
Personally I think they are much more varied than say your typical Anime, whose characters often look the same not just across the same studio, but over the whole genre. And they take big, doe-eyes with button noses to new levels.
ETA - while in her example alone I see more variations of say thinner faces vs rounder ones, I think the limitations in facial structures is because round things are what humans tend to view as âcuteâ, as systematical things we tend to view as âprettyâ. Many of those male characters arenât going for âcuteâ, some of them are more âoafishâ and a few down right villainous.
Iâm not talking about her. Iâm saying if you do it independently, thatâs what youâll find.
Also, by the way, my daughter tells me this character in Big Hero6 is Hispanic
What exactly is a hispanic person supposed to look like?
The reason is obvious - men donât have to be pretty to be important.
Pretty sure they all wear Sombreros.
It probably says more about the pervasive influence of Japanese animation on Disney/PIxar and american animation in general than a particular Disney obsession.
Look at the pre-80âs style Disney animation, female characters are much different.
Itâs not that there arenât Latina ladies who look like this, but her background was barely perceptible in any way - her looks, her accent, her mannerisms. Maybe if they had made it more part of her character, so what if she is light skinned, but I saw the movie and it was completely news to me that she was.Hispanic.
Apparently the voice actress is Hispanic.
There are Hispanics with blonde hair and green eyes? Hell yeah.
It has less to do with ethnicity than with USAâs census racial bias.
the male ones are action figures 
