Thursday, September 12, 2013

Cinderella - Sewing Mice

In this picture the mice are singing a song of making Cinderella a dress for the ball. During the song the female mouse says to the male mouse "leave the sewing to the women." This is a sexist remark that has made an implication on society just form one simple line of a Disney Princess film. In modern day society all men who even take an interest in fashion and sewing are stereotyped as homosexual. So as younger children watch Cinderella they see these little inputs and take note of who does what and the representation of only women sewing becomes a key idea in society.
As seen here in this advertisment for sewing needles there is an image of four women sewing, smiling and having fun. This is another stereotype which Disney Princesses have implicated in society. It gives an idea for society of the perfect women and what they are meant to do.
Cinderella also has her little animal friends help her out in the morning with doing household chores and even helping wash herself. It is a very unrealistic representation of what the perfect women looks like.
Here is the video of Cinderella in the morning. She wakes up happy and optimistic, a morning person. She sings and all of her animal friends come in to listen. Of course the women mice are with their children and the men waking up with a knotted tail. She then goes on to tidy and wash herself with help from her little animal friends. This is something which could never happen in reality. It is a bad representation of what a perfect women should look like. Happy and alert in the morning, singing right away and making animals do things for her.
This is how Cinderella is represented and the stereotypes which are reflected in society as an idea of what the perfect women would be like which is highly unrealistic and sexist.

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