Gender roles and stereotypes have been implemented in society since the beginning of time due to the male’s belief of being the superior gender. These stereotypes are placed into the children of society's by watching parents or even the parents enforcing these stereotypes through things like television and items children play with every day like toys. Many of these stereotypes are enforced on children through the parents beginning at birth with the basic clothing colors of either pink or blue. Dr. Susan Witt had found one study that stated, “Parents have differential expectations of sons and daughters as early as 24 hours after birth” (Witt). As children grow up, these same roles are placed upon them with toys that they had “chosen” like …show more content…
Most young children grow up watching Disney movies, which causes girls to want to grow up and be princess and allow the boys to want to be the white knight who saves all. Only recently with films like Frozen and Brave have females characters not really needing a male to save them. The Gender roles in Disney Animations paper states, “Aladdin, Pocahontas, and Mulan, each princess in these movies are more independent” (Yerby). This however is incorrect due to Jasmine needing to be saved by Aladdin, Mulan trying to be a man, and Pocahontas only saved John Smith due to love and not the means of their tribe. Even movies that do not include humans have stereotypes like in Lion King with how the lionesses are unable to gain the strength to overthrow Scar until Simba has returned (Yerby). Simba was used as a symbol of good masculinity and that with that around the lionesses were allowed to revolt instead of being able to do all of this before. Disney also places a stereotype on gender and age by having the villains be older and mainly women. While the young, beautiful females are having to be saved, the older, uglier females are portrayed as evil and villainous. These older and more evil characters are the reason that the damsels are in