Reverse Gender Roles
What is Disney Teaching Children?
Disney movies are a part of many children's lives growing up. What may seem like a picture perfect fairy tale full of happy endings may be detrimental to children's views on beauty, love, and heroism. The presence of gender ideologies and gender role-stereotypes can have a a negative effect on developing children. For girls, the ideal of finding a prince charming and living happily ever after and being beautiful is present in most of the Disney movies they grow up watching. For boys, being the hero is present in most of the childhood Disney movies they grow up watching. Both of these ideals, love and heroism, are unrealistic and restrictive to what young girls and boys should be learning.