calling out arguewithatree and lil
also also they hit on a super important point about coding WANTING especially for oneself as BAD. "The Girl" by City and Colour came on Pandora just now and I'm mad rolling my eyes at the whole song which is basically like wowowow thx for being understanding about me following my dreams but then follows it up with this line "If you were to leave and fulfill someone else's dreams/I think I might totally be lost"..... ignoring entirely that it's probably supposed to be a don't leave me for another dude line, what if it's her own dreams? that's bad. she has to frame herself in the singer's world and success and dreams or he'll be LOST. it's boring.
Because Disney sucks. That said:Why is it that female cartoon villains get to be all of these things, to have all of these things? Why do they get to have hairstyles—no, Hairstyles, with a capital Hair—while their protagonist counterparts are drawn small and soft and childlike? Why does Ursula get to have a beauty mark and the most impeccably waterproof makeup a sea witch could hope for, while Ariel gets the same wide-eyed small-jawed face as every other white Disney princess? Why does Maleficent get a headpiece that defines menacing elegance and dark grandeur, while Aurora gets generic late-fifties bangs? Why does Shego get to mouth off to Drakken and read magazines by the pool and decide what is and isn’t her job, while Kim Possible has to leap into action regardless of whether she’s tired or sad or sick or, heaven forbid, too busy?
Know what's funny? We've fed the kid almost exclusively on Miyazaki. Ponyo, Totoro, Kiki, Howl. She watches those things without letup. Tried her on Monsters Inc. about four months ago. She wandered off to do something else about halfway through. She doesn't have patience for forced 3-act oppositional structure. It just ain't her thing.
i'm into this although the comments seem to miss the point of focusing on appearances as being coded for behavior. a lot of disney villain/esses are queer coded too which is a whole other doozy of "can'ts/shouldn'ts" etc
mhmm! Scar, Jafar, Ursula is modeled after drag queen Divine, i'm sure there are more but those are the ones i can think of off the top of my head do it. i've been super into purple lipstick recently but have nowhere near enough opportunities to wear it.