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Originally Posted by Tophat665
Jinn, due respect, but that video is a load of crap on so many levels it should be discounted out of hand. There are so many misinterpretations and distortions that it would take far more time than it's worth to debunk them each, so I'll just take the one that misses the point entirely:
The three soldiers from Mulan singing about a girl worth fighting for: These characters are clearly buffoons, comic relief, and their professed desire for subservient women serve as a foil for one of the main themes of the movie - women are equal to men. Those same three characters appear dressed as the women they find worth fighting for later in the film.
Pulling that out and using it as evidence of sexism is the sort of out of context shenanigans I would expect from Carl Rove.
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Furthermore, to refute another example that video presented: Gaston (from
Beauty and the Beast), the sexist, bullyish, conceited, barrel-chested he-man, is clearly the
villain of the movie. He is
supposed to be a really bad example of manhood.
Or consider the example presented from the
The Emperor's New Groove, that scene where the young emperor is inspecting a line-up of bridal candidates, with his flippant and insensitive criticisms toward their individual appearances. Well, everyone - even kids - watching that movie
knows the young emperor is a spoiled, self-centered and shallow young man - which that particular scene serves to reinforce. But why not show scenes of the
other lead male character in that movie: Pacha, the gentle and responsible, yet strong and brave, husband and father? (And to those who would say Pacha is likewise presented as being hen-pecked, I say rubbish! Pacha is just sensitive and caring toward his pregnant wife, who he evidently loves and adores. A husband who is "hen-pecked" is one who cowtows to his wife because he is scared of her, for whatever reasons, though he quietly resents her and probably rebels against her through cowardly, passive-aggressive means.)
Sexism does indeed exist in media, but I do not think that particular video made a good case for it.