Commonly seen disney stereotypes
Change for your man
- Ariel starts out in the little mermaid as a good representation of women
- She is strong willed, curious, talented, brave and adventurous.
- She even saves Prince Eric from drowning
- She changes her whole personality once she becomes infatuated with prince eric
- She trades her tail for legs, already drastically changing herself physically for him.
- She becomes quite and submissive and all she wants is for Eric to like her.
- He seems to like the quiet changed version of her.
- She leaves her family and her friends and her old life to go and live with Eric.
Representations of men
- Snow white represents that men are useless around the house
- They cannot do basic house tasks and need a woman to do it for them.
- Snow White has to do everything for the dwarfs conveying that they are incompetent.
Beauty and happiness
- Your beauty is the only thing that makes you special
- Literally Cinderella turns up to the ball looking beautiful and dolled up
- The Prince falls for her beauty not her
- They live happily ever after.
- Literally the message conveyed her is beauty equals happiness
- The same thing applies in Sleeping Beauty
- Prince Eric falls for Aurora because he thinks she is beautiful
- They don’t get to know each other but they suddenly decide that they will be married because they like the look of each other.
Being fat and angry is related
- It is a recurring theme that being big of fat makes you moody and angry while being thin and petite makes you kind and gentle
- For example Belle and the Beast in beauty and the beast
- Also ursula and Ariel
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