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⌈ Secret Post #549 ⌋

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It was discussed that we progressively introduce strong female characters that boys can like. They will NOT automatically accept a lead strong female if there aren't strong females on the side leading up to it. It has to be eased into. An d Pixar is planning a story with a female lead. It's called The Bear and the Bow and it comes out in a few years.

But that aside, to call it sexist is just SO ridiculous, I'm sorry. You can say you wish that Pixar would have a female lead and that is totally fine, but it is a HUGE stretch to call them sexist because they haven't especially since they continually write strong women (as noted, often stronger than the actual male leads), lead or not.

I do think it's sexist. I think that having to ease males into liking strong female characters is a sad commentary in and of itself that the entire system and the society that we live in is sexist.

Yeah, I saw that there's one coming out in um, three years. That's fabulous. It really is. But I think that having a lead female character in one film out of ten is a really really pathetic track record.

I don't wish that Pixar would have a female lead. My wishes are a bit more far reaching than that. I wish that every film that Pixar produces would have a fairly equal distribution of female and male characters. For instance, I wish that Ratatouille had more female chefs, and female rats. I wish that Cars had "female" race cars, that there had been a higher percentage of "female" vehicles in general, and that some of them had been trucks or more traditionally "masculine" vehicles.

I wish that for every film Pixar produces with a male lead, they would produce one with a female lead. I wish for equal and varied representation.

I guess that makes me ridiculous in your book. I'm okay with that. I'd rather be ridiculous and calling society on the generalized and specific gender issues that I see than be anything else. There wouldn't be any strong female characters if women hadn't started drawing attention to the issue, and I genuinely don't think that we as a society are anywhere near far enough towards gender equality for us to STOP drawing attention to it.

Edited 2008-07-09 02:32 (UTC)

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