{"id":20637,"date":"2021-02-18T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20637"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:48:18","slug":"lets-talk-2-0-lets-talk-about-disney-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/02\/18\/lets-talk-2-0-lets-talk-about-disney-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk 2.0<\/em>: Let\u2019s talk about Disney movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered why gender roles come to exist in society? More important question: have you ever questioned it? No? Well, then, let\u2019s talk!<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s think about this for a second. What if everything we think or do does not come from rationality but is learned? In fact, we know that most things are learned. The person we become is influenced by factors like culture, family structure, religion, and society.<\/p>\n

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Let’s Talk 2.0<\/em> is a column exploring feminist issues (graphic by Celina Lessard\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, what if even children\u2019s movies play an implicit role in our development? Most of us knew Disney movies from a very early age. And we loved them, right? We always have the pretty princess, living a miserable life until the handsome prince, who she most likely only met once but knows he\u2019s the forever-person in her life, fights witches and spells just to save the princess he\u2019s only met once. Well, that must have been one hell of a date!<\/p>\n

So you and me learned gender roles very early on\u2014we learned that girls should be what Disney considers pretty and that it doesn\u2019t matter how miserable life gets, there will be a prince to save us. There\u2019s no need to stand up for ourselves\u2014we just have to stay calm and patient. Meanwhile, the guys learn that they have to be the hero of the story. It\u2019s not real love if he can\u2019t rescue the girl.<\/p>\n

So, adapting this to today\u2019s love stories, independent women struggle to find Mr. Right. Because they don\u2019t need a hero. But what if the only role left for men is to play the hero in the story? So, if there\u2019s no hero needed, why should a man approach at all?<\/p>\n

Oh, I see a lot of faces lighting up now. So, what can we actually do about this?<\/p>\n

We need to understand that a lot of our behaviour does come from influences at a young age. If we’re able to identify the tricks that have been played on us\u2014and they have been played for a reason!\u2014we can actually move against them.<\/p>\n

However, if there’s a man in your life, acknowledge once in a while that he needs to be a hero. Also, women can be their own heroes; people of all genders are heroes and no one needs to be rescued. Maybe we can learn that movies were made for a purpose and that there\u2019s an outdated statement to Disney movies about gender roles and positions.<\/p>\n

One way we can help eliminate outdated gender stereotypes is by not showing children movies that push them in a gender role. Sorry, Walt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered why gender roles come to exist in society? More important question: have you ever questioned it? No? Well, then, let\u2019s talk! So, let\u2019s think about this for a second. What if everything we think or do does not come from rationality but is learned? In fact, we know that most things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20642,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions\/20642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}