Perhaps when The Big Bang Theory wraps up after this contract that is paying Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons enough to buy their own small countries runs out, Mayim Bialik can get her own cable news series or daytime talk show. After all, it seems like very few celebrities have as many scorching takes as the socially conservative woman who once played Blossom. Whether taking on potential serial killer Ariana Grande and her billboard sexuality or waxing poetic about how she always has Israel on the mind, Bialik is fearless in sharing her opinions on the things that are happening in the world, and next on her list is the beloved Disney megahit Frozen.
After finally sitting down and watching Frozen recently, Bialik and her sons didn’t like it one bit, and she needed to hit the keyboard and vent her frustrations to the world over this Academy Award winner. Of course, Bialik also readily admits that she hates a lot of stuff, including musicals, so keep that in mind before your eyes roll backwards to the point of no return.
First up on the list of complaints, Frozen’s typical girl meets boy, girl wants to immediately marry boy because he’s a prince and she’s a princess fairy tale BS needs to go the way of Bambi’s mom.
My issue is that this is a movie geared to small children who I don’t think need to be focusing on that as the main driving plot of a movie, especially when it’s not a literary or historically-based fairy tale. And these characters are young; certainly not old enough in my socially conservative opinion to be searching for mates!
I’ve had just enough already with this finding a man business in most every kids’ movie. Disney classics were all about this and look where it’s gotten us! Naked billboards of singers and women still not paid equal pay for equal work and ridiculous standards of beauty and body image and campaigns such as “Why I Don’t Need Feminism” and tons of other things proving we still have a ways to go. (Via kveller)
Before you start shaking your fists in anger at Bialik’s feminist outrage or the fact that she’s totally wrong about the “main driving plot” of this movie, know that she’s got all of the fellas’ backs, too. After all, she writes, Frozen wasn’t exactly fair to the men either, and being a feminist doesn’t mean that she would stand idly by and let Disney turn all men into the villains.
All of the talk I’ve heard about “Frozen” revolves around how it goes against all the stereotypes of princess movies. And in some ways it does; it shows one sister trying to convince the other sister not to trust this guy she just met. Then the guy turns out to be a villain and the sisters need to rely on each other, using their love to transform and save them ultimately. It’s a lovely notion, but it was just not executed well at all in my opinion.
What should have happened, if you ask me and Mayim B. here, is that Disney should have recognized that all princes and princesses should start out with group dates so they can get to know each other in social settings and observe how the other behaves in public and especially around other cartoon royalty. Perhaps they could team up with Ariel and the prince she married – you know, the guy who hooks up with fish – and grab some coffee and talk about how Belle married a talking buffalo.
Back to Anna and Elsa, though, perhaps the biggest offense was their appearances, and she’s not just talking about those freakishly-large eyeballs. (But those did bother her.)
They have ginormous eyes. Like really ridiculously big. Teeny-tiny ski slope noses. Exaggerated delicate ski sloppiness, actually. Barbie doll proportions of their bodies in general: tiny waists, ample busts, and huge heads. They look like dolls. They don’t look like the same species as the male characters even! What’s up with that?! My sons thought the females looked like BRATZ dolls, truth be told. I kind of agree.
Fun fact: One of the female characters from Frozen also has the ability to turn everything around her into ice, which is also not a human trait, but that’s apparently neither here nor there. As Jessica Rabbit once said, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” But what these female Disney characters should have said was something like, “We’re not sex dolls, we’re just drawn that way,” although I’d also settle for, “Lady, we’re just cartoon characters, for the love of Walt.”