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WP: Men spoke more than women even in Disney's Princess movies

Posted by: Antibody on Jan 26, 14:05

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/25/researchers-have-discovered-a-major-problem-with-the-little-mermaid-and-other-disney-movies/

In the classic three Disney princess films, women speak as much as, or more than the men. “Snow White” is about 50-50. “Cinderella” is 60-40. And in “Sleeping Beauty,” women deliver a whopping 71 percent of the dialogue. Though these were films created over 50 years ago, they give ample opportunity for women to have their voices heard.

By contrast, all of the princess movies from 1989-1999 — Disney’s “Renaissance” era — are startlingly male-dominated. Men speak 68 percent of the time in “The Little Mermaid”; 71 percent of the time in “Beauty and the Beast”; 90 percent of the time in “Aladdin”; 76 percent of the time in “Pocahontas”; and 77 percent of the time in “Mulan”

WP: Men spoke more than women even in Disney's Princess movies Antibody Jan 26, 14:05

Lol. {nm} masonacj Jan 26, 14:12

thanks for another irrelevant social justice warrior post dmac {nm} adrenalin112 Jan 26, 14:32

inconvenient truths are inconvenient slipping jimmy Jan 26, 15:18

17yrs ago. Lets move on. {nm} adrenalin112 Jan 26, 15:36

Frozen came out in 2013. Despite being a story about two sister princesses, men claim 59 percent of the lines in that film. {nm} Antibody Jan 26, 15:45

One cannot diminish the power of Elsa because she is intentionally verbally noncommunicative and not a babbling idiot like Olaf. {nm} maltrinity Jan 26, 16:34

Why couldn't Olaf be voiced by a woman? Why are the sidekicks predominantly male? {nm} Antibody Jan 26, 16:36

the movie was damn near perfect in box office success & empowered females of all ages. Why are you looking to fault it? {nm} adrenalin112 Jan 26, 16:51

because it's a consistent pattern of bias {nm} slipping jimmy Jan 26, 17:01

yeah so instead of praising the movie for it's overall positive message, let's chastise it for uneven word count LMAO SMH {nm} adrenalin112 Jan 26, 17:26

The problem is the pattern. But you have to look at some of the unlikely films that STILL fit the pattern. CG63 Jan 26, 20:59