Fourth Blogpost

My source is called “Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses”. This title may seem a little off, because my Research paper is supposed to be focused on James Cameron’s melodramatic film “Titanic”. However, while doing my research I came across this article, “Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses”, and decided to focus my paper on how female characters are portrayed in Disney movies. The main argument of this article is how male and female characters are portrayed in the various Disney princess films. The article uses various experiments, and outside information to compare and contrast the different Disney princesses, with their male counterparts. The “male” and “female” traits are categorized, and then the prince and princesses are each matched with whatever traits they exhibit in the films. This experiment helps support how Disney makes all of its’ princesses have “womanly” traits, and do things that a typical woman, according to Disney, would.  It also explains how the movies are also biased towards females. For example, according to the article Disney princess films are racist and sexualize the princesses with most of them appearing with, “extremely pale skin tones, small waists, delicate limbs, and full breasts”. A study was done the counted the number of female and male characteristics that males and females of each movie had. The male characters 495 female characteristics, while the females had more than twice that number with 1068. This source was very helpful to me, because it gave me a lot of information on how females are portrayed unfairly in Disney films.