Disney Princess Most Feminist DP Movie Countdown! hari 6: Pick the LEAST Feminist! (Elimination based on comments)

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Sleeping Beauty
   50%
Tangled
   36%
Beauty and the Beast
   11%
Pocahontas
   4%
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Jessikaroo picked Tangled:
10. Cinderella
9. Aladdin
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7. Princess and the Frog
6. The Little Mermaid
5. ?

Please try to remove you bias and give good reasons why you choose said movie!

I've given my reasons on Tangled. Really thinking hard about my next choice though, the only one I'm not thinking of picking yet is probably Pocahontas. Surprisingly, TLM left with no fights and no arguing/controversy. Good job guys!
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Pink_Love picked Sleeping Beauty:
Rapunzel kicks butt in her movie,she works with Flynn, so I do not want to vote for Tangled but Aurora relies completely on others so...
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starlight77 picked Sleeping Beauty:
I feel like it does nothing to support the cause. The only thing I feel like that could even say feminist is the fairies.
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Swanpride picked Pocahontas:
Glad to see that in this countdown, the comment really make a difference.

About Sleeping Beauty: To quote the quote from my own article:

“Name me a big, blockbuster, mainstream film made in the last fifty years that has:
A predominately female cast.
Where none of the main female protagonists are young or conventionally attractive (this is if you consider Aurora to be a supporting character.)
Where they are not sexualised in any way.
Where the fact that they are women is simply incidental and in no way effects their competence.
Where the female protagonists are working with rather than against each other.”

The whole movie is about woman making decisions, it's basically about the fairies vs. Maleficient, so even if Aurora is not a particulary feminist character, the movie as a whole definitly is.

Concerning Tangled: Rapunzel is the only Disney Princess who ends up in a true position of power, and frankly, she kicks ass! Plus, Eugene is clearly interested in her character, and not her looks! He is feminist, she is feminist, the whole movie is feminist.

I chose Pocahontas. While it ends on a good note, with Pocahontas being respected for her wisdom aso, the movie as a whole is not particulary feminist, because all the decision Pocahontas makes she makes because of a man. She doesn't fight war because she loves peace, she does it because she is in love with John Smith (and because the stupid arrow points in the right direction). Plus, she never really refutes the Kokoum is a good man because he is strong enough to basically protect her...hell, it's really convenient that he gets killed along the way otherwise she might have to marry him after all, wisdom or not.
Tangled, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty (if you see the fairies as main characters) are all about woman, who have a dream and persue this dream, independent from the men in their lives. With Pocahontas, it is all about "I don't marry Kokoum, I want something else!" and them about "I want to be with John Smith"....only at the very end she makes her decision independent from her love life (which is the one reason I didn't vote her out sooner). And there is still the notion that there is some sort of choice, that a woman can either be successful or married but not both...something I think is anti-feminist (even if feminists tend to complain about every princess finding her prince).
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AllegroGiocoso picked Tangled:
Just compared to the others...
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rhythmicmagic picked Beauty and the Beast:
I just find it less feminist than the rest. Pocahontas is told she will be looked to for wisdom by her community, and in the end she choses her people over John- with no pushing from anyone but John, who wants her to go with him. I agree with SwanPride on Sleeping Beauty. Mulan makes a place for herself in her community doing what was considered unacceptable for a woman, as well as gaining respect for it. I really don't want to repeat everything I said about Tangled last round. Beauty and the Beast is pretty good, but while Belle may defend against a marriage to Gaston, the rest of it is about how she falls in love with the Beast despite him being a beast- which is a trope seen relatively regularly, but where is the movie where a gorgeous man falls for an ugly, angry, bitter woman?
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DsnyPrincess picked Sleeping Beauty:
Why is it still here?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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BelleAnastasia picked Tangled:
I explained already in a previous round why I'm voting for Tangled. I can't believe it's not gone yet.
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princesslullaby picked Beauty and the Beast:
Beauty and the Beast can go next. In the end, Belle's dream is shifted to a guy and nothing about it is particularly feminist.
Glad The Little Mermaid left! I adore that movie, it's my favorite, but it should have gone.
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Swanpride picked Pocahontas:
True...but at least there is made a point that Belle is beautiful because she has character, and Belle does fight for her right to marry whoever she wants. But yeah, as soon as Pocahontas is gone, Beauty and the Beast is up next for me.
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maryksand said:
I'm not voting for personal reasons, but while I wholeheartedly agree with Swanpride about her points related to Pocahontas, the majority of them have more to do with Pocahontas' the character rather than Pocahontas the movie. So where Belle's character might be more feminist than Pocahontas, the premise of BatB the movie does not strike me as very supportive in regards of gender equality considering Belle undergoes oppression from the side of not one but TWO males with superiority complex, one of which she later ends up with - and while, to give Beast a credit, he did end up respecting Belle and her interests/personality, initially he fell for her because of her looks.
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princesslullaby picked Beauty and the Beast:
I find Pocahontas, the movie, way more feminist than BATB because it shows a woman in a constant position of power who's seen as a great leader and who, in the end, saves the man and chooses her family/duty over staying with the guy.
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