Disney Verision of Feminity: The wrong message for our youth.

Disney’s female characters are giving our children the wrong idea of what it means to be a women and feminine. According to Disney and the overwhelming male production staff to be feminine is: to be thin, have small waists, long hair, large breasts, curvy hips, and essentially have an “hourglass” figure which is represented in their female characters Women are to be feminine and sexually attractive. Women are not supposed to be of power or importance.They are to be solely women of image and objects of desire for their male counterparts. Furthermore, most of the female lead characters and story plots that revolve around a male dominated world and usually end up marrying the prince, etc. No matter what their strife or struggle may have been, at the story’s completion the audience sees the female living happily ever after with her object of desire. All in all they are subservient to their male counterparts. Furthermore, Disney enhances this overt feminine sexual tone and the typically female personality traits of the Disney women, are the exhibition of the traditional roles that women were supposed to maintain. This concept continues to perpetuate the homemaker stereotype that has plagued American women for many years. It is clear that the Disney females find themselves in a male dominated world and only finds peace and contentment through her marriage to a “prince” and living happily ever after.