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Pixar's gender problem

4 points by hernan7 18y ago

unalone 18y ago
Flagged. This is a lot of biased rambling. Assigning arbitrary low scores because the main character's never female? Maybe the fact that Pixar has a strong male team of writers/animators makes them feel like they are better able to write from the male perspective? Or is it sexist for men to favor writing men? Why don't more female writer/animators enter the scene? Then to knock them for finally having a female lead because it's a fairy tale? Christ. Why not pick on Dreamworks? They don't have that many female lead movies either, not in their animation. And David Lynch didn't have many female leads either, not until his movie with the lesbian lovemaking scene. Coen Brothers? Stanley Kubrick? All sexists?
- Chocobean 18y ago
  perhaps the only insightful comment from the entire rant is that "males are general, females are particular." an exploration into why this seems to be upheld in the minds of most people would be way more interesting than her rant that Pixar must be sexist for thinking the same way as the rest of the human race. Pixar is a company that tells identifiable human stories mostly with non-human living creatures and animated inanimate objects. Giving them "generic human" properties in order to appeal to the general human condition just seem like common sense. In fact, I am way more disturbed by the fact that most male characters in recent stories are portrayed as weak, flawed and/or immoral, and that most female characters are the embodiment of kindness, good sense and smarts. There may be more male characters, but are any of them adequate role models for our male youth?
meredydd 18y ago
I feel the need to pull up a quote from the comments, attributed to a Pixar executive (in a social setting): "Gee," he said, "that's something we wrestle with all the time. We're very aware of it and we're trying to change. But sometimes it's just so hard to find a way to justify adding a female character to the story." If that quote doesn't singlehandedly demonstrate the accuracy of this article's analysis, I don't know what evidence possibly could.

4 points by hernan7 18y ago

Flagged. This is a lot of biased rambling. Assigning arbitrary low scores because the main character's never female? Maybe the fact that Pixar has a strong male team of writers/animators makes them feel like they are better able to write from the male perspective? Or is it sexist for men to favor writing men? Why don't more female writer/animators enter the scene? Then to knock them for finally having a female lead because it's a fairy tale? Christ. Why not pick on Dreamworks? They don't have that many female lead movies either, not in their animation. And David Lynch didn't have many female leads either, not until his movie with the lesbian lovemaking scene. Coen Brothers? Stanley Kubrick? All sexists?

Chocobean 18y ago
perhaps the only insightful comment from the entire rant is that "males are general, females are particular." an exploration into why this seems to be upheld in the minds of most people would be way more interesting than her rant that Pixar must be sexist for thinking the same way as the rest of the human race. Pixar is a company that tells identifiable human stories mostly with non-human living creatures and animated inanimate objects. Giving them "generic human" properties in order to appeal to the general human condition just seem like common sense. In fact, I am way more disturbed by the fact that most male characters in recent stories are portrayed as weak, flawed and/or immoral, and that most female characters are the embodiment of kindness, good sense and smarts. There may be more male characters, but are any of them adequate role models for our male youth?

meredydd 18y ago

I feel the need to pull up a quote from the comments, attributed to a Pixar executive (in a social setting): "Gee," he said, "that's something we wrestle with all the time. We're very aware of it and we're trying to change. But sometimes it's just so hard to find a way to justify adding a female character to the story." If that quote doesn't singlehandedly demonstrate the accuracy of this article's analysis, I don't know what evidence possibly could.