"Cinderella ate my daughter" is an extension of what we talked about in class last week. This article was written by Peggy Orenstein. She writes personal experiences between herself and her daughter. Although this article was interesting, I found myself disagreeing with her a few times. I understand that Disney movies portrays a bad image for girls. They will grow up waiting for their prince,not become independent and have a bad image about themselves. The problem I had with this article was that her child was in preschool. I think at that age they are not going to understand that Disney is bad. I think the girl would feel like an outcast if everyone else was talking about Disney and Cinderella and she had no idea what they were talking about. The ideas that come out of Disney is important to teach kids, but I believe it needs to be when they have a cognitive understanding, that there is a difference between reality and these fantasy worlds that is Disney.
I agree that kids do not fully understand the concept of Disney and that they do portray negative behavior in their films. They are just young children who are living and dreaming in a fantasy world. I found it interesting how the author grew up watching Disney movies, but refused to let her daughter watch them. It is weird when everyone else is talking about a movie and you have no idea what they are talking about, you do feel like an outcast. I liked the video, it showed me a different perspective about Disney movies and how they incorporate sexism, strength, and dominance in their films.
ReplyDeleteI agree the message they are sending out is wrong, but when they are that young they don't really understand the message that is being sent. When you're that young I don't think it is bad to watch disney as long as when you get older that they do learn the message and realize it is wrong. For example, women being portrayed like super models in order to find true love. As long as they learn that is not true at some point then it isn't a big deal when they watch it at such a young age. I don't think she should have made such a big deal about it either because Orenstein watched disney movies when she grew up too!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ashely and Alex young children do not fully understand what they are watching. They are expanding their minds to the world of Fantasy and learning how to use their imaginations. They are not watching these movies with judgmental eyes because they don't know how to! I understand that there is negative stuff in these movies but we are going to be teachers not analytical writers on children's toys and disney movies....
ReplyDeleteI agree. How much are young children getting out of what they watch? At some point you have to sit your child down and tell them this is just pretend. Hopefully kids don't pick up on these sort of things.
ReplyDeleteYou make some good points. I think that if Peggy did not let her daughter watch Disney, it could make matters worse because the daughter may not feel accepted by her peers and she may feel left out. I also agree that young children don't understand that Disney is bad so we should let them watch Disney and create their own opinions about it
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