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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