Are films like Frozen empowering girls by making our men look like idiots and villains?
Okay brace yourself… Fox News thinks that Hollywood is giving men a raw deal and Frozen is sexist. Towards men.
Hollywood, where last year award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence made less money than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Now, if you know anything about Frozen, you’ll know what a great, empowering movie it is. It’s an example of Disney’s groundbreaking nature – the main characters are women, in case you’ve forgotten – and anyone saying otherwise would make us laugh usually.
Except that Fox isn’t joking.
In an segment that views like satire, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy posed an important question to the people of America:
“Are movies like the Disney smash hit about an ice queen and her sister empowering girls by turning our men into fools and villains?”
Apparently it’s being called the Frozen effect and it’s a threat to masculinity everywhere. No one is safe. To discuss the phenomenon that’s spreading over the US like Princes Elsa’s snow over Arendelle, Doocy called in an expert
Penny Nance, mother of two CEO of “Concerned Women for America” aka “The women’s group who loves men”. Seriously though.
Watch the interview here (post continues after video):
Nance backs Doocy’s argument that films like Frozen make men out to be “evil and cold and bumblers”.
“It’s not just Disney, but Hollywood in general has often sent the message that men are superfluous, that they’re stupid, that they’re in the way, and if they contribute anything to a family it’s a paycheck,” she says. “And that is not true, and it’s not good social science.”
Nance is all for empowering young women but she is worried that little boys will be crippled by films that are making men appear incompetent.
“We want to empower women and that’s good… But we don’t have to empower women at the cost of tearing down men,” she says. “We want to raise real men. We want to encourage masculinity, not villainise masculinty.”
What?! Is it opposite day, as they say in the primary school yard. If Doocy’s final remarks are anything to go by, maybe.
“Real men… It would be nice for Hollywood to have more male figures in those kind of movies. As heroes.”
Top Comments
The fact that you the author thinks "sexist" needs to be qualified with "towards men", is a pretty good indicator of the problem. I don't think Frozen is sexist. It's just not a good movie.
Is Frozen Sexist?
No.
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