stems from a similar issue I encountered working in the video game industry: because the majority of the people working for the company are male, that's what they identify with. ... Pixar is, I think, a bit more aware than that, but they still work in s Silicon Valley environment.
Hm. While that's true on a visual sense, these movies were written by script writers and designed by film directors. They exist in the movie industry, not the game industry, so I feel they should be judged as well as any comparable studio of children's work. Most animators at Disney over the last 60 years have been men, and most high powered positions in the movie industry are held by men; Hollywood is not really that much more diverse than the gaming industry. Given that in this one issue Pixar is actually *worse* than the established children's film companies like parent group Disney (which deliberately and regularly alternates the genders of its protagonists and nearly always creates films populated by male and female characters), I don't think they get to have the excuse that most groups have. It's just something they need to fix. I've done some reading, and I know that it will be another two years before one of their films is released with a female lead. She's a princess, by the way. Make of that what you will, if you make anything of it.
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Hm. While that's true on a visual sense, these movies were written by script writers and designed by film directors. They exist in the movie industry, not the game industry, so I feel they should be judged as well as any comparable studio of children's work. Most animators at Disney over the last 60 years have been men, and most high powered positions in the movie industry are held by men; Hollywood is not really that much more diverse than the gaming industry. Given that in this one issue Pixar is actually *worse* than the established children's film companies like parent group Disney (which deliberately and regularly alternates the genders of its protagonists and nearly always creates films populated by male and female characters), I don't think they get to have the excuse that most groups have. It's just something they need to fix. I've done some reading, and I know that it will be another two years before one of their films is released with a female lead. She's a princess, by the way. Make of that what you will, if you make anything of it.