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11:49:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6525,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/feministing.com\\\/archives\\\/004982.html#comment-27722&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;d never even thought about this until Prairie brought it up after we watched one of the trailers for <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneypictures\/cars\/\" title=\"Disney Presents a Pixar Film: 'Cars'\">Cars<\/a>, when its predominantly male-centric theme got her started thinking about the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/\" title=\"Pixar\">Pixar<\/a>&#8216;s oevure. We got started talking about it again this morning, after I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/inside\/issues\/stories\/v060502.html\" title=\"Disney Insider: Fine-Tuning 'Cars'\">this quote from Bonnie Hunt<\/a> excerpted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pixaranimation.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/fine-tuning-cars.html\" title=\"Luxo: Fine-Tuning Cars\">Luxo weblog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  One night John [Lasseter] said to me, &#8220;The next movie I\u2019m writing, you\u2019ll be the girl in it.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See that? <em>The<\/em> girl. Really, that sounds about right. Just where are the girls in Pixar films? Let&#8217;s take a quick look&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114709\/\" title=\"IMDB: Toy Story\">Toy Story<\/a>:\u00a0Bo Peep, Andy&#8217;s Mom, and Hannah (the infant sister). All definite supporting characters. Andy&#8217;s Mom and Hannah are barely there, and Bo Peep is little more than a cute flirtation gag.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120623\/\" title=\"IMDB: A Bug's Life\">A Bug&#8217;s Life<\/a>:\u00a0More women, but more characters overall, also: Princess Atta, Princess Dot, The Queen, Gypsy Moth, and Rosie the Black Widow. It&#8217;s still a male-dominated cast &#8212; even the ladybug is a boy (it&#8217;s a great gag, but when looked at from this context, suddenly it&#8217;s not <em>as<\/em> funny).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120363\/\" title=\"IMDB: Toy Story 2\">Toy Story 2<\/a>:\u00a0Jesse, Mrs. Potato Head, Tour Guide Barbie, Bo Peep, Andy&#8217;s Mom, and Hannah. Jesse, admittedly, is a wonderful character, but still definitely a supporting character &#8212; this is still Woody and Buzz&#8217;s story. The other additions are an overbearing housewife and a dim blonde. As Prairie said, &#8220;Hooray for womankind!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0198781\/\" title=\"IMDB: Monsters, Inc.\">Monsters, Inc.<\/a>:\u00a0Boo, Celia (Mike&#8217;s Medusa-like girlfriend), and Roz (the supervisor\/secretary). An infant, a neglected love interest, and a stereotypical crone of a secretary (voiced by a man, no less).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0266543\/\" title=\"IMDB: Finding Nemo\">Finding Nemo<\/a>:\u00a0Dory, Peach (the starfish), Deb\/Flo (the fish whose &#8216;sister&#8217; is her reflection in the tank), and Coral (Nemo&#8217;s mom). Dory&#8217;s certainly a major character in the film, but still essentially a supporting character (this is, after all, Marlin and Nemo&#8217;s story)&#8230;and she&#8217;s addled to boot. Sweet, lovable, and funny&#8230;but addled.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317705\/\" title=\"IMDB: The Incredibles\">The Incredibles<\/a>:\u00a0Helen Parr (Elastigirl), Mrs. Hogenson (who?), Violet, Mirage, Edna Mode, Kari (the babysitter), and Honey (Frozone&#8217;s wife). To date, Helen is Pixar&#8217;s strongest female character, and the closest they&#8217;ve come to a female lead, but again, the movie is about how Bob (Mr. Incredible) adjusts to the changing circumstances in his world. We certainly can&#8217;t ignore Honey, who is only present as a voice haranguing Frozone as he tries to find his costume.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317219\/\" title=\"IMDB: Cars\">Cars<\/a>:\u00a0Sally&#8217;s the only female character in any of the previews. According to the IMDB, there&#8217;s also a Lizzie and a Flo. Until the movie appears, we won&#8217;t really know just how strong of a character Sally is, but the trailers make it obvious that this is, once again, a boy&#8217;s movie (to the point that Prairie isn&#8217;t looking forward to <em>Cars<\/em> as much as she has other Pixar films, due to the automotive theme).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0382932\/\" title=\"IMDB: Ratatouille\">Ratatouille<\/a>:\u00a0This one&#8217;s so early in development that the only definite information to date is that it&#8217;s about &#8220;a rat named Ratatouille who lives in a upmarket Parisian restaurant run by an eccentric chef.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To date, there&#8217;s not a single Pixar film that has a female main character: <em>The Incredibles<\/em> comes the closest, but even there, both Helen Parr\/Elastigirl and Violet are supporting characters, and it&#8217;s Bob Parr\/Mr. Incredible that&#8217;s the hero. Look at the &#8216;poster wall&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/featurefilms\/index.html\" title=\"Pixar Feature Films\">on Pixar&#8217;s website<\/a>. <em>None<\/em> of the poster designs feature a female character&#8230;even the rollover effects exclude every female character save Dory.<\/p>\n<p>As Prairie pointed out to me, where there are plenty of Disney films that girls can spend hours playing and pretending to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/princess\/html\/main_iframe.html\" title=\"Disney Princess\">Disney Princesses<\/a> in (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disney_Princesses#Criticism\" title=\"Wikipedia: Disney Princesses: Criticism\">most of them<\/a>, at least), there isn&#8217;t a single Pixar film that she would have wanted to play as a child.<\/p>\n<p>While some might argue that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.francaisedecoeur.com\/journal\/2005\/12\/14\/disney-schmisney-or-single-dads.html\" title=\"Francais de Coeur: Disney Schmisney (or Single Dads)\">Disney as a whole is sexist<\/a>, I don&#8217;t quite see that. Disney&#8217;s older works are often based on traditional fairy tales, where the missing mother\/evil step-mother is an integral part of the tale (as is the handsome prince coming to the rescue); newer films have been much better. <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120855\/\" title=\"IMDB: Tarzan\">Tarzan<\/a>, for instance: while Jane&#8217;s mom is conspicuously missing (presumably permanently, and not just left behind in England, as Jane&#8217;s father cheerfully joins her in remaining in Africa) and Tarzan&#8217;s parents (mother <em>and<\/em> father) are killed, Kala is a <em>very<\/em> strong and loving mother figure, and Jane &#8212; like <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119282\/\" title=\"IMDB: Hercules\">Megara<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120762\/\" title=\"IMDB: Mulan\">Mulan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0230011\/\" title=\"IMDB: Atlantis: The Lost Empire\">Kida<\/a> before her &#8212; is a deliciously strong woman in her own right.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity that, <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/004982.html#comment-27722\" title=\"Feministing: Feathers McGraw: The two big reasons for the dearth of females...\">as one commenter posited on the Feministing weblog<\/a>, movie studios in general are both constrained by and unwilling to challenge what appears to be a very male-dominated movie audience, even for children&#8217;s movies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The two big reasons for the dearth of females in G-rated films are that a lot of the source material (childrens&#8217; books, fairly tales) feature male protagonists, and more importantly, a number of very well-made childrens&#8217; films featuring female protagonists underperformed at the box office (<em>A Little Princess<\/em>, <em>Matilda<\/em>, <em>Because of Winn-Dixie<\/em>&#8230;), leading a lot of executives to believe that boys won&#8217;t watch films with female protagonists. So while studio executives bear a large measure of responsibility for not pushing harder, they&#8217;re also reacting to the market in this case.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So how about it, Pixar? You&#8217;ve shown the world that not only does Disney not have a lockdown on animated films, but that &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; films can be made that are good <em>family<\/em> films as well, rather than aiming the films so low that the unfortunate parents have to grit their teeth for an hour and a half whenever they take their kids to the movies. For over a decade now (since <em>Toy Story<\/em>&#8216;s debut in 1995), you&#8217;ve consistently produced some of the best <em>films<\/em> &#8212; not just animated films, or children&#8217;s films, but best <em>films<\/em> &#8212; around.<\/p>\n<p>How about letting the girls in to play as well?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Get iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" alt=\"iTunes\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id= xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8220;<a title=\"Search for 'Another World' on the iTMS\" href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa %252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253F artistTerm%253DBeborn Beton%2526songTerm=Another World%26partnerId%3D30\">Another World<\/a>&#8221; by <a title=\"Search for 'Beborn Beton' on the iTMS\" href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/ stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid= 1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252F MZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252Fadvanced SearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeborn Beton%26partnerId%3D30\">Beborn Beton<\/a> from the album <em><a title=\"Search for 'Tales From Another World' on the iTMS\" href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type= 3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple. com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search. DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeborn Beton%2526 albumTerm=Tales From Another World%26partnerId%3D30\">Tales From Another World<\/a> <\/em> (1997, 4:25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I&#8217;d never even thought about this until Prairie brought it up after we watched one of the trailers for Cars, when its predominantly male-centric theme got her started thinking about the rest of Pixar&#8217;s oevure. 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