Gender cues from the Lion King? Okay y'all, I am in need of some help for a paper I'm writing in my Family Relationships and Gender Roles class at KSU. We are to watch the movie, The Lion King, and then write a 4 page paper about the gender cues that little kids are receiving from the movie. An example of this would be how strong and muscular the male characters are and how the females are more laid back and stay home to watch the babies. If you've watched the movie lately, what kind of gender messages are you noticing? Have you seen your child respond to a certain aspect of the movie? |
It's been a long time but a few I can think of are; Mufassa is the protector (physically) and expects Simba to be the protector of his female friend (Nuala?). The warthog and Meercat have very crude humor (fart jokes). Sorry, like I said it's been a really long time. |
I watched that movie 8002 times when my daughter was younger. I can sing every song and practically recite the entire dialogue. :rolleyes: I only want to point out...not all the female characters were portrayed as laid back stay at home moms. When Nalia met Simba again...she was out hunting for food. And the hyena, whose voice was Whoopie Goldberg's, was mean and also the smartest of the three. Side note - there is a scene where Simba is on top of a mountain...when he flops down...a dust cloud rises...in the air...the dust spells out the word sex. Really. When that info came out...I watched specifically to see if it were true. |
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Julie, if you haven't seen the Lion King in a while, you should watch it again and look for these cues. Gosh, I think it would be fun to watch the movie, looking for this, and there is some great music. Don't want to say who's who, but the movie reinforces traditional human roles in the animals, even though the mama lion is the food provider, daddy teaches all important life lessons, and mom's role is more of a homemaker. There are undercurrents of homosexuality and evilness; again if you watch the movie this will be clear. Kids learn an awful lot from movies and fairytales, but I doubt if many mothers noticed kids responding differently after the movie, these things are subtle. Oh I just read Bchgirl reply so forget mine. I only saw it once. However, I'm not sure many people see Whoopie as feminine. |
I remember that I was annoyed that none of the girl lions could rule the pride. Yes, I am a hyper-sensitive feminist. :p The whole point of the story is that Simba's sister has to go find him because he's the only one who can rule. And then of course there are two scenes where the male baby is presented to the other animals and everyone is thrilled. Yes, I know that prides usually feature a couple male lions and a few females, but considering it's a Disney movie with a warthog and a lion getting along, why do we still insist on the King of the Jungle? Why not the Queen? |
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Now I can't remember "Whoopie's" name in the movie...gonna have to go google and see if it's a feminine name or not. |
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Thank you everyone for all of your responses. I knew I could count on YT to point me in the right direction. I need to set down and watch the movie again...and maybe again:rolleyes: and hopefully some of these things will start to stand out. |
I can't remember how it went in the movie, but in a real lion pride, the females do the hunting. |
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Yeah really. There is more than that in there....I've forgotten...maybe you could goggle it. I remember some children's group was all up in arms over stuff that animators had snuck into the movie. It happened in more Disney movies than just the Lion King. |
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Ha ha, that was kind of funny- someone had a LOT of spare time on their hands.:p I only got just a bit past the 3 min. mark but most of those seemed like a stretch. |
Disney movies in general I've noticed they always have a missing parent. No mommies or daddies ..they are killed off.. Snow White..no parents..Cinderella... father died..evil sep mother..Aladin..no mom...Bambi..mom gets killed...Mermaid...no mom...Nemo..no mom... Do you see a patern????:eek: |
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:thumbup: I'm totally not buying it! Our brains are programed in to making abstract visuals in to recognizable patterns and images, thats why we can see pictures in the clouds, or faces in our textured ceilings while lying awake at night. I didnt see any of those things before they was pointed out and even then it didnt look like the word "sex". Some one was really bored to go to the trouble of making this video, but i can say i did see one subliminal message in this video, "Subscribe to my videos" time: 7:11 |
I think you could find subliminal messages in anything if you tried hard enough |
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