the holes in the theories

Laura, 21, film enthusiast and penis trees blogger.

"it just does not seem like your kind of thing at all. there's no queerness or romance or class issues or history or religious junk!!!!" -Sara

"YOU ARE MY LITERARY SIREN. sitting on the rocks warbling “you should read this booooooooooooook it’s really queeeEEeEeEEeEEEEerrrr” melodically" -Dorian

"ur the hole to my theory" -Miranda

"if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other,
my god that’s plenty
my god that’s enough
my god that is so, so much for the light to give" - Andrea Gibson

So after that ridiculous Joe Roth quote about how dudes just can’t get no representatio in fairy tales/fantasy films and someone’s reblog claiming that Disney’s movies were all about girls, I decided to do a little digging.

Disney animated (theatrical) features with female leads:

• Snow White
• Cinderella
• Alice in Wonderland
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Little Mermaid
• Beauty and the Beast
• Pocahontas
• Mulan
• Lilo and Stitch
• Home on the Range
• The Princess and the Frog
• Tangled
• Frozen (?)

Disney animated theatrical features with male leads:

• Pinocchio
• Dumbo
• Bambi
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
• Peter Pan
• The Sword In The Stone
• The Jungle Book
• Robin Hood
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• The Fox and the Hound
• The Great Mouse Detective
• Oliver and Company
• The Lion King
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hercules
• Tarzan
• The Emperor’s New Groove
• Atlantis: the Lost Empire
• Brother Bear
• Chicken Little
• Meet the Robinsons
• Wreck-It-Ralph

That’s thirteen with female leads and twenty-two with male leads, not counting the movies with dual protagonists. If you add Pixar (which is co-owned by Disney) you get:

Female leads:

• Brave

Male leads:

• Toy Story
• A Bug’s Life
• Toy Story 2
• Monsters Inc
• Finding Nemo
• The Incredibles
• Cars
• Ratatouille
• WALL-E
• Up
• Toy Story 3
• Cars 2
• Monsters University (?)

which brings our respective totals to fourteen and thirty-five. Remind me again how boys are the under-represented demographic?