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     After researching the topic it can be confirmed that Disney Princess movies do in fact construct an over effeminate role that young women find themselves trying to mold into. Stephanie Hanes notes in her article, Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect, that children are drawn into a fairy tale world in which girls find it necessary to follow a set of codes. Additionally, Casi Lynette Sharp draws upon gender roles for women in her article A Fairytale Gone Wrong. Because Disney is such a prominent franchise that children are constantly surrounded by the images and messages it relays and as a result Disney has the capacity to “restrict the representation of other perspectives about cultures, issues and events” other than its own (Sharp, 2011). Consequently girls are exposed to a limited view of women, one in which they are supposed to live a domestic lifestyle and spend countless hours searching for their prince charming.

     Articles have also revealed that Disney movies create constrictions for men. Ken Gillam and Shannon Wooden's article Post-Princess Models of Gender: The New Man in Disney/Pixar revelas that in movies such as "Beauty and the Beast," men are shown as violent, but in the end they still get what they want. While the Beast is aggressive to Belle, she still ends up falling in love with him, and thus the Beast is rewarded for his negative behavior. As a result, Disney movies endorse violence in little boys by not punishing ill actions.

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The Disney Effect

This blog serves to give insight into the "Disney Effect." Through analysis of the princes and princesses in the classic Disney films, this research will study whether or not these stereotypical portrayals of men and women will affect children later on in life. Does seeing images of women as housewives, constantly cleaning and swooning over their meneflect upon the way girls percieve what they can achieve in life? Additionally Disney movies depict the princes as having the ability to charm women. Therefore, does exposure to these representations of men cause young boys to think it is appropriate to use violence as a means of power. A great deal of children watch Disney movies, however if their innacurate stereotypes are seeping into the way children act, the characters could negeatively impact who the children will become when they are older.Through cips of Disney videos depicting the princes and princesses and through readings of extensive studies written about the affects of Disney movies, this blog will answer these questions.