12. The Disney trope of the dead mother is connected to this. Once again, women associated with deeply serious not-funny stuff.
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13. The dead Disney mom & Disney princess both exist in an realm of narrative earnestness & decorum away from laughter & joy.
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14. If there is a feminist case to be made for Disney, it can be located in female villains.
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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.
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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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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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18. Disney's comment about women having "a better knowledge of color" then men also points to longstanding employment practice.
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19. In both print cartooning and animation, women often delegated job of coloring. http://comicscomicsmag.com/gender-of-coloring/ …
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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?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@hoodedu @Jennifer_deG Men much more likely to be color blind, but that hardly explains hiring practices. Plenty of non-color-blind men.
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