{"id":20087,"date":"2015-07-13T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20087"},"modified":"2015-07-13T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:40:13","slug":"minions-may-beat-lava-for-most-sexist-kids-movie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20087","title":{"rendered":"“Minions” may beat “Lava” for most sexist kid’s movie of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Lava,” as I hope you don’t recall, is the animated short that accompanies “Inside Out,” the otherwise wonderful new Pixar movie. <\/p>\n

As I’ve said before, some cartoonists draw women as “visual aliens”; men are allowed to be earthy and funny-looking and part of a coherent visual universe, but women are there to be pretty. “Lava” is the most extreme example I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

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But it’s possible that the full-length “Minions” is even worse:<\/p>\n

‘Minions’ Creator Pierre Coffin on Why None of His Animated Little Yellow Helpers Are Female<\/a><\/p>\n

For the French animator, who co-directed the new film with Kyle Balda, the masculine-only nature of the Minions owes to their all-around cloddishness. \u201cSeeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn\u2019t imagine Minions being girls,\u201d he told TheWrap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As often happens, this is sexism that is both anti-girl (because it implies that girls have less than the full range of human traits) and anti-boy (suggesting that boys are inherently “dumb and stupid”). But I certainly agree that the director has displayed a lack of imagination.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen “Minions,” but Reel Girl<\/a> did, and found it to be the most sexist kids movie of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Lava,” as I hope you don’t recall, is the animated short that accompanies “Inside Out,” the otherwise wonderful new Pixar movie. As I’ve said before, some cartoonists draw women as “visual aliens”; men are allowed to be earthy and funny-looking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,62,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-sexism-hurts-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20092,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions\/20092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}