Sexual Orientation in Animated Disney films aimed at kids

[china autie]

I think that parents have a choice of what movies to take their kids to and an obligation to teach them.

It is not up to Disney or any other company to police what kids see. That is,part of the job of being a parent.

Again, my niece and her same-gendered partner have two wonderful children. Would you rip those kids out of a loving home?

Kids who grow up with same -gendered parents have no less a chance of being straight than kids in other households.

So what exactly is the fear of a movie that parents get to choose having their children go see or not?

 

[the_tortoise]

It's an animated Disney film largely aimed at young children, who won't understand a woman kissing another woman, that's the crux of my issue with this.

This is only if they have not encountered homosexual relationships yet and/or have been taught romance happens exclusively between people of the opposite sex. It's a simple thing to explain to a child that some women fall in love with men and other women fall in love with women.

Plenty of children have homosexual parents, many are growing up in families with two moms or two dads. It would not be at all confusing to them, particularly if it was all they had ever known.

A child may fail to understand anything they haven't seen before -- that's just part of learning. Would you shield a child from all things which might confuse or surprise them? How would they ever learn anything?

For a young child who has limited/no exposure to homophobic views, witnessing demonstrations of romantic affection between same sex partners is likely no more complicated or difficult to understand than demonstrations of affection between heterosexual partners. It's just less common because homosexual people are a minority of the population, so it might be something new they haven't seen before and weren't aware of.

 

[Fino]

@Fino, why would you mark my comment "funny"?! I was being serious.

Because you said your problem is a child not understanding two women kissing, and my first thought was a child not being allowed to go to school and someone asks why and you hand them a really long piece of paper with a massive list of things you're worried they won't understand and the man says, "Sir, that's what school is for. To understand those things."

So it was really more me laughing at my own thoughts, I can take it off if that would help.

 

[Judge]

In essence, when it comes to sexual orientation, there is no "confusion". There's only diversity to be learned. A lesson worth teaching a child at any age, IMO.

Otherwise one is hinting to a child that one kind of sexual orientation is acceptable while others are not. That's teaching a child to be a bigot.

Explaining the existence of sexual diversity to a child does not inherently mean you have to explain sex itself in great detail any more than you might explain mild affection shared between one's parents. Don't expect the average child to understand kissing only to move onto Freudian speculation of female orgasms. And if they do, your child knows more about sex than you think...lol.

 

[SunnyDay16]

This has nothing to do with Frozen, but another Disney film.

I kind of headcanon Joy and Sadness from Inside Out to be gay, even if it hasn't been officially confirmed by Pixar. They chemistry they share in the movie and Joy's reaction to the Imaginary Boyfriends made me, and others, ship them.

There's always been homoerotic undertones, even in kids' movies. Queerbaiting's also pretty well known. I don't think it will be too surprising for Disney to show gay relationships explicitly. I think audiences would even be relieved.