Inside out isnt sjw enough
Joni Feelman Eleonora a fan .
Feminist, body positive, wife, mom mime, Editor
lavishly. c om, (s ofttimes} RN.
Pixar Fails At Body Positivity in 'Inside, Out'
I have five kids. Like, for real. Five of them. We don' t go to the movies as much now
that my bigger kids are so BIG (seriously, one of them is 5' 1"], and the little ones have
pretty much zero interest in movies. We have a TV (we arent that weird), but we don' t
watch it much. That said, I' m sort of mat of the loop when it comes to pop culture. I'
only read about the new Pixar movie. I had no plans on seeing it, really, but now that
I' read about it and a had a friend confirm my suspicions, I will for sua' e not ever be
seeing it.
Like any good feminist, I object to parts of Snow White (um, Prince rescuing her with
a kiss? No). And The Little Mermaid (uh, have fins? Switch for legs? For a man? No).
And like any good activist, I question why I can' t even take my kids to
a movie, for flip' s sake (not that I would, but we' re speaking hypotheticals here)
without a collective sigh and a real, genuine head shake/ eye roll.
I can' t write with any real authority about Inside Out, because I haven' t see the movie,
but I' m pretty much ; positive that seeing the movie isn' t required to make this
judgment. Because here' s the thing about movies: They are made of pictures. And
visual memory is most reliable than auditory or tactile. That' s , folks, we
remember what we see.
Just take a minute to think about the implications of that.
And what are we seeing, exactly?
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Pixar Fails At Body Positivity in 'Inside, Out'
I have five kids. Like, for real. Five of them. We don' t go to the movies as much now
that my bigger kids are so BIG (seriously, one of them is 5' 1"], and the little ones have
pretty much zero interest in movies. We have a TV (we arent that weird), but we don' t
watch it much. That said, I' m sort of mat of the loop when it comes to pop culture. I'
only read about the new Pixar movie. I had no plans on seeing it, really, but now that
I' read about it and a had a friend confirm my suspicions, I will for sua' e not ever be
seeing it.
Like any good feminist, I object to parts of Snow White (um, Prince rescuing her with
a kiss? No). And The Little Mermaid (uh, have fins? Switch for legs? For a man? No).
And like any good activist, I question why I can' t even take my kids to
a movie, for flip' s sake (not that I would, but we' re speaking hypotheticals here)
without a collective sigh and a real, genuine head shake/ eye roll.
I can' t write with any real authority about Inside Out, because I haven' t see the movie,
but I' m pretty much ; positive that seeing the movie isn' t required to make this
judgment. Because here' s the thing about movies: They are made of pictures. And
visual memory is most reliable than auditory or tactile. That' s , folks, we
remember what we see.
Just take a minute to think about the implications of that.
And what are we seeing, exactly?
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