Lack of female leads in animated films, says writer

Disney is pretty 50/50...

Little Mermaid, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty... uh... Lilo and Stitch...

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What Disney animated film doesn't have a female as a lead character?

Most of them just aren't very TOUGH female leads... but they're usually interesting characters at least.
 
I think she was saying that as a female lead, her main goal is to get her man, so to speak, not to save the world or do something for herself aside from true love.
 
The thing you have to keep in mind is that most animated features are written and produced by men. writers can only write what they know, therefore, most films and TV shows have a male outlook by default.

The general consensus placed upon society by popular gender myths is that girls are primarily concerned with being pretty and getting boys to like them, or at least that is often the extent of male's experiences when it comes to writing for women. It's not like they have firsthand knowledge of the female experience. The stereotyping of female roles stems more from ignorance than sexism.

I don't know how to achieve this goal, but perhaps the best way to expand the variety of the types of roles given to females is to get more females to work on these films behind the scenes. If there were more women writers, producers and directors, then we'd see a greater spectrum of female characters and performances.
 
Ahhh, good old femenism. Gotta love it.

Anyeay, what are they talking about that Disney has a lack of female leads?? I'll name 10 right off the bat:

Snow White (From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Mulan (From, you guessed it, Mulan)
Cinderella (From, you guessed it, Cinderella)
Pocahontas (From, you guessed it, Pocahantas)
Belle (From Beauty and the Beast)
Miss Bianca (From the Rescuers)
Briar Rose (From Sleeping Beauty)
Wendy (From Peter Pan)
Lilo (From Lilo and Stitch)
Ariel (From the Little Mermaid)
 
What about movie spin-offs of TV shows?

Judy from Jetsons: The Movie
Daphne and Velma from the Scooby-Doo DTV movies
The Chipettes from The Chipmunk Adventure
Elisa from The Wild Thornberrys Movie and Rugrats Go Wild
Arcee from Transformers: The Movie
The Powerpuff Girls from The Powerpuff Girls Movie
 
What about Elastagirl from the Incredibles or the princess(I can't think of her name right now) from A Bugs Life. Even Jesse from Toy Story 2 was a complex character with her feelings of abandonment.
 
She doesn't say that:



She's not criticising Pixar's heroines because they have romantic feelings for men, she's criticising them for never being cast as the main character, even after eight films.
 
First off, "feminist" isn't a dirty word, people.

Secondly, she brings up some very valid points. I, too, have noticed the glaring lack of female leads in Pixar films, which is unusual, since Pixar has a lot of female employees.

Last I checked, the male-to-female ratio with animators was almost 50/50. This is the 21st century; there's no excuse for not having a single female lead in a Pixar film (or a Dreamworks film, if I recall), unless it's, "Well, girls will see a film with a male lead, but boys won't see one with a female lead," and even then, that's not a very good one.
 
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