RGM post 7

I absolutely love Disney. I love the stories and songs and the magic of it. But I realize that the portrayal of women anger many people. They are shown as damsels in distress many times. However, in recent years they have gotten much better in my opinion. Mulan tells the story of a woman going to war for her father. Brave's Merida has no interest in being married and wants to make her own way. In Frozen, the true love is love between sisters and the main male character isn't the hero.

While I love all of these movies, I love the older ones as well! I actually like the romantic idea of women being swept off of their feet. Maybe not in the same way as the movies show, but I am perfectly fine with the men being shown as the strong ones. Men are built stronger than we are, but that's not to say that women aren't strong too. I feel like Disney does a pretty good job of showing that women are more than just weak creatures waiting to be rescued because they are incompetent and have no minds of their own.

I think Disney has also done better recently portraying different races. Pocahontis, Mulan, Tiana, Jasmine and Merida are just a few examples, but most of the stories are set in different parts of the world. And the characters I just named are just princesses. There are other stories that Disney has told with different races and cultures.

I know and accept that there is still room for improvement, but my opinion is that they have done a pretty good job so far. The older movies have less diversity, but you have to think of the time when the movies were made.

I also kind of feel like people tend to look at the bad and focus on that, but pay little or no attention to the good things. Not just with Disney, but with life in general. I fell like sometimes people try to find the bad in things instead of looking for the good. Instead of seeing all of the good things Disney has done, people want to get upset about the characters they chose to write movies for. Honestly, I tend to feel like people are too sensitive.

Now that’s not to say that I am excusing things, because that’s the furthest thing from my mind. I want to see things change just as much as the next person. But the thing I’ve seen is people getting all mad and expressing these opinions but never acting on it. They want the change but they won’t do anything to help that change to come about.

In order for anything to change, people have to listen to each other and cooperate instead of getting themselves all worked up and nothing ever comes of it. The end of this blog has nothing to do with Disney really, but this is what I think is actually important.