Comments on: Does Pixar Have a Gender Problem? Not Really.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:43:27 +0000

Putting your career above your love life doesn’t make one a feminist. Feminism = equality between men and women.
The problem here, it seems to me, is that Pixar seems to default to the male gender for characters that don’t lend themselves to being either male or female. This is not at all unique to Pixar; it’s pretty much Hollywood all over.

By: Dukes

Dukes — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:44:02 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree…when was she ever portrayed as weak? She spent almost all of that movie being a strong woman, a great and loving mother, and kicking the ass of anyone who got in her way.

By: Emiliano Contraz

Emiliano Contraz — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:53:41 +0000

Probably the most (unjustly) overlooked Pixar film is Toy Story 2, which was different from the first mainly in its addition of Jessie the cowgirl as a central character. A majority of Pixar fans probably skipped this movie, but nobody who watched it could argue that Pixar has never structured one of its films around a strong female lead. Decked out in boots and pigtails and voiced by Joan Cusack, Jesse had more of a storyline and more of a personality than any other character in TS2, and definitely did more to actively provide a healthy female role model for young girls than almost any animated picture before or since.
That being said, your point about Pixar being a post-gender movie studio is more of a rule with the rest of their films, and is definitely well-taken.

By: Patricia Realini

Patricia Realini — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:42:54 +0000

what about Colette in Ratatouille? She was kind of bad ass. And she had a heart. And what about Pixar's strong collaborations with Hayao Miyazaki? Miyazaki is renowned for his strong female roles in his animated works and he and Pixar have worked together countless times. It's like art history. are you going to call an art history teacher sexist because they only talk about great male artists from the renaissance. i mean come on people.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:36:34 +0000

I thought Elastic-girl or whatever her name was in the Incredibles was a great female character. C'mon! She doesn't even get a mention because she has a family? It was about a 2/5 split story between her and Mr. I.