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10 years ago
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So I just watched a video made by one of the SuperCarlinBrothers asking if Pixar is actually sexist. They bring up some interesting points and even bring in a Feminest Youtuber to help them come to a dissension, you can find her here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhI4ZFhUrMs and the Brother’s bit here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cODw_Tekc .
Now apparently the reason why this came up is because Pixar failed something called the bechdel test, which essentially is a test to see if women are represented well in a movie or in some other form of media, and from my understanding the bechdel test is prity easy to pass. First you need to have two female lead characters, second they need to talk about something other than men. Like I said not hard to pass but roughly 80% of movies don’t. Now to be far to these movies, movies have been around longer than feminist so it doesn’t really surprise me if older movies fail this test and as far as I know their isn’t a bechdel test for men witch I find a little sexist on their part but I’m not get to far into that.
The question that is being asked her is, “is Pixar sexist?” My personal option is most certainly not, and this is my rezoning. In order to be sexist you have to depict ANY gender by their stereotype and every single character that is this gender has to be this stereotype, which means every women has to be incredibly girly and working in the kitchen and every man has to be some dumb drunk ass hole who would assume hit or have sex with a woman as oppose to just talk to them or get to know them, and seeing that Pixar has a vast diversity of different men and women that don’t go anywhere near these stereotypes I would have to say no they are not sexist. Granted they do have a few perverted moments like the screen where Misses Incredible gets her leg stuck in a door but she at least reacts the way a woman normally would if someone touched their thigh by beating the sh@$ out of the guy that touched her.
That said people are saying that the fact that Pixar has failed this test is reason enough for them to rethink the way they do things. My response to that is something I can’t say because I want to be able to post this on Deviant. These I feel are mostly words coming from feminist that are taking women’s rights just a little too far. The whole, “Respect us or else” bit. I’m not saying that all feminist are like this I’m just saying that these particular feminist say “I should be like this…OR ELSE!” As for what I think Pixar should do, they should do whatever they want. If they want to pass the bechdel test that’s fine that just means that we will have more than one female in the leading roils, but they shouldn’t do these for the sole purpose of passing the bechdel test they should stick with whatever keeps the story going. Some of the world’s worst characters and some of the most controversial monuments have been created for the sake of political correctness.
So on a final note I leave you with this question. Do we care? As far as I know the women’s rights moment is pretty much over, most men now see women as their equals as oppose to sandwich making factories, the only women that are “oppressed” are the ones in Muslim dominant communities, and men can’t really touch, look, or say anything bad about a woman without being hung from a tree, it’s almost to the point to where THEY have to fight for their rights giving how rapid male sexism is. (For those of you who are saying that there is no male sexism I give you exhibit A https://unseenflirtspoetry.files.wo.....er-excited.png )
Anyway, I personally think Pixar hasn’t done anything sexist or racist, (Well unless you count how much of a red neck stereotype Mater is…plus the Asians in Cars…and the Brits…you know I starting to realize why I don’t like the Cars movies that much) they are far more interested in telling a story, which is where their focus should be and to be honest where most writer’s focus should be. The article that sparked this was probably just a feminist that wanted to invent a civil rights movement so he or she would be noticed.
Anyway feel free to post your comments down below. What do you think about Pixar and how they depict women? Are they sexist, are they fine as is, or was all thing made up by some writer in an attempt to get more attention? (Now that I think about it I’m probably no better than he is after writing this article. :/ Oh well.)
So I just watched a video made by one of the SuperCarlinBrothers asking if Pixar is actually sexist. They bring up some interesting points and even bring in a Feminest Youtuber to help them come to a dissension, you can find her here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhI4ZFhUrMs and the Brother’s bit here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cODw_Tekc .
Now apparently the reason why this came up is because Pixar failed something called the bechdel test, which essentially is a test to see if women are represented well in a movie or in some other form of media, and from my understanding the bechdel test is prity easy to pass. First you need to have two female lead characters, second they need to talk about something other than men. Like I said not hard to pass but roughly 80% of movies don’t. Now to be far to these movies, movies have been around longer than feminist so it doesn’t really surprise me if older movies fail this test and as far as I know their isn’t a bechdel test for men witch I find a little sexist on their part but I’m not get to far into that.
The question that is being asked her is, “is Pixar sexist?” My personal option is most certainly not, and this is my rezoning. In order to be sexist you have to depict ANY gender by their stereotype and every single character that is this gender has to be this stereotype, which means every women has to be incredibly girly and working in the kitchen and every man has to be some dumb drunk ass hole who would assume hit or have sex with a woman as oppose to just talk to them or get to know them, and seeing that Pixar has a vast diversity of different men and women that don’t go anywhere near these stereotypes I would have to say no they are not sexist. Granted they do have a few perverted moments like the screen where Misses Incredible gets her leg stuck in a door but she at least reacts the way a woman normally would if someone touched their thigh by beating the sh@$ out of the guy that touched her.
That said people are saying that the fact that Pixar has failed this test is reason enough for them to rethink the way they do things. My response to that is something I can’t say because I want to be able to post this on Deviant. These I feel are mostly words coming from feminist that are taking women’s rights just a little too far. The whole, “Respect us or else” bit. I’m not saying that all feminist are like this I’m just saying that these particular feminist say “I should be like this…OR ELSE!” As for what I think Pixar should do, they should do whatever they want. If they want to pass the bechdel test that’s fine that just means that we will have more than one female in the leading roils, but they shouldn’t do these for the sole purpose of passing the bechdel test they should stick with whatever keeps the story going. Some of the world’s worst characters and some of the most controversial monuments have been created for the sake of political correctness.
So on a final note I leave you with this question. Do we care? As far as I know the women’s rights moment is pretty much over, most men now see women as their equals as oppose to sandwich making factories, the only women that are “oppressed” are the ones in Muslim dominant communities, and men can’t really touch, look, or say anything bad about a woman without being hung from a tree, it’s almost to the point to where THEY have to fight for their rights giving how rapid male sexism is. (For those of you who are saying that there is no male sexism I give you exhibit A https://unseenflirtspoetry.files.wo.....er-excited.png )
Anyway, I personally think Pixar hasn’t done anything sexist or racist, (Well unless you count how much of a red neck stereotype Mater is…plus the Asians in Cars…and the Brits…you know I starting to realize why I don’t like the Cars movies that much) they are far more interested in telling a story, which is where their focus should be and to be honest where most writer’s focus should be. The article that sparked this was probably just a feminist that wanted to invent a civil rights movement so he or she would be noticed.
Anyway feel free to post your comments down below. What do you think about Pixar and how they depict women? Are they sexist, are they fine as is, or was all thing made up by some writer in an attempt to get more attention? (Now that I think about it I’m probably no better than he is after writing this article. :/ Oh well.)
Sure if you want to analyze it be my guest but in the end are they still great movies? (Maybe not all cough cars 2 cough)
But really, what does it matter? There are far worse movies for feminists to chew into but why pixar? And she hasn't seen Brave? (Highly doubt that)
And... uh, what about uh... INSIDE OUT?! Yeh, totally buy that whole pixar's sexism.
Maybe I'm defending them too harshly. Then again I'm a massive pixar fan boy that is getting tired of my phone refusing to capitalize the word pixar...
That's about all I have to say. If you want good quality well written children's movies, polar is your go to studio. Want good children's cartoons? Cartoon network is hosting two great shows adventure time and Steven universe. Also check out gravity falls for its bad ass female lead and supporting cast.
Let me be honest I think I went off on a tangent filled with some sort of passion but it's like 1 am nd I have little to no clue if I got a clear point across so please tell me if you are confused.
(And yes still don't quite understand why Word hasn't added Pixar into it's spell check yet. O.o And that's more of a problem than this crap!)