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**HakTaisanip** · 07-02-2012, 08:37 PM

Boo to you and your lack of perception.

This IS yet another social engineering flick with a heavy message centralized around female independence and obsolescence of men. Once again in a children's movie, viewers are shown the ineptitude of men while the female characters are displayed as strong, independent heroines. Several times the movie alluded to the King himself being nothing more than a figurehead with the Queen making all the decisions. The men were brutes. The women were civilized.

The ginger girl doesn't want to marry any of the male suitors, shuns girlish clothes/etiquette and preaches acceptance. All in time for the much touted month of pride.

This movie, like all Disney movies, has an agenda hidden just under the surface. It wasn't as 'in your face' as, say, some of these commercials and tv shows that show men as bumbling and women as virtuous but it's there.

huh? the men were all talked up at the end as having pulled together and saving the kingdom. the queen was shown in the end as being very shallow/stupid and not caring enough about her family. it wasn't about female independence, it was about merida's family finally pulling together as a unit and not just doing what was best for themselves. in the final scene, both the female figures admit they were wrong and that they should have listened to each other and made the family stronger from the beginning. i thought the family as a unit angle was very nice. i think you really have stretch to find fault with this one.

07-02-2012, 08:37 PM	#6
HakTaisanip Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	Boo to you and your lack of perception. This IS yet another social engineering flick with a heavy message centralized around female independence and obsolescence of men. Once again in a children's movie, viewers are shown the ineptitude of men while the female characters are displayed as strong, independent heroines. Several times the movie alluded to the King himself being nothing more than a figurehead with the Queen making all the decisions. The men were brutes. The women were civilized. The ginger girl doesn't want to marry any of the male suitors, shuns girlish clothes/etiquette and preaches acceptance. All in time for the much touted month of pride. This movie, like all Disney movies, has an agenda hidden just under the surface. It wasn't as 'in your face' as, say, some of these commercials and tv shows that show men as bumbling and women as virtuous but it's there. huh? the men were all talked up at the end as having pulled together and saving the kingdom. the queen was shown in the end as being very shallow/stupid and not caring enough about her family. it wasn't about female independence, it was about merida's family finally pulling together as a unit and not just doing what was best for themselves. in the final scene, both the female figures admit they were wrong and that they should have listened to each other and made the family stronger from the beginning. i thought the family as a unit angle was very nice. i think you really have stretch to find fault with this one.
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