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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      9. The humourless Disney princess has to be set against male leads who are allowed to be funny: Pinocchio, Dumbo, etc.

      1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      10. To their credit, more recent animated films have had funny princesses (Brave, Frozen). That only took 60 years.

      5 replies 7 retweets 16 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      11. The class/gender connection is also interesting. Disney complains that if he trains female cartoonists, they'll just go off & marry.

      2 replies 4 retweets 4 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      12. The Disney trope of the dead mother is connected to this. Once again, women associated with deeply serious not-funny stuff.

      3 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      13. The dead Disney mom & Disney princess both exist in an realm of narrative earnestness & decorum away from laughter & joy.

      3 replies 5 retweets 5 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      14. If there is a feminist case to be made for Disney, it can be located in female villains.

      1 reply 7 retweets 11 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      15. The Evil Queen, the evil step-mother, Maleficent, etc. are all given a degree of colorfulness & agency denied to princess.

      3 replies 5 retweets 8 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      16. Thinking intersectionally, it's interesting difficulty "Snow White" model has had in encompassing non-white characters.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      17. There have of course been attempts at non-white Disney princesses but none of them have had success of classic white princess.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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      18. Disney's comment about women having "a better knowledge of color" then men also points to longstanding employment practice.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014

      19. In both print cartooning and animation, women often delegated job of coloring. http://comicscomicsmag.com/gender-of-coloring/ …

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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          20. Usual biological explanation for this is men are more prone to color blindness. But that's hardly a satisfying explanation.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2014
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          21. More than biological color blindness, I think real explanation is cultural tradition associating women with decorative arts.

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        1. Chris Edwards‏ @OneChrisEdwards 4 Dec 2014
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          @HeerJeet Pretty sure it was women who were assigned to hand-colour early silent films, too. @silentlondon

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        1. Barry Freed‏ @BarryFreedNYC 4 Dec 2014
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          @HeerJeet Not just cartooning. Goes back to 19th century possibly earlier, women were colorists in print making & map making.

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        2. Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again‏Verified account @Jennifer_deG 4 Dec 2014
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          @HeerJeet Many comic book colorists are women now -- being recognized as artists--their work is integral to the finished product.

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        3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 4 Dec 2014
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          @Jennifer_deG @HeerJeet I believe there is actually at least some biological basis to believe that women have better color sense than men?

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