Yeah, they're cute and beautiful, but....

[timepiececlock]

Has there ever been a Pixar film with a female protagonist?



Edit 1: This article breaks down the film list and cites one of my problems with WALL-E, which aside from the WTF gender bullshit was an entertaining and sweet film:

"Hey, guys, we have this robot with no inherent gender identity. We want to give it an arbitrary gender. Maybe we could make it female. Yeah, no, that would just just be ridiculous."


Daughter of Edit: This Peter Segal article about Horton Hears A Who is also good reading. (not Pixar, but still.)

We got into the car outside the cineplex and I was quite in lather, let me tell you. "How come one of the GIRLs didn't get to save Whoville?" I cried.
"Yeah!" said my daughters.
"And while we're at it, how come a girl doesn't get to blow up the Death Star! Or send ET home? Or defeat Captain Hook! Or Destroy the Ring of Power!"
"That's rotten!" cried my daughters.
"How come Trinity can't be the One who defeats the Matrix!" I yelled.
"What are you talking about?" they said.
"You'll find out later," I said.

Comments

[thelymachy.livejournal.com]

Its a kid thing - I did a thing on it for a psychology essay. Girls can adapt and identify with a male protagonist, but boys rarely accept a female protagonist as the "hero" if given another option. Likely because its more readily accepted for a girl to have some masculine traits than a boy to have feminine ones (double standard, ahoy!). So, if they have the choice of those two, most children related media will have a boy protagonist with a girl secondary since it will attract the largest range of kids.

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