OH MY GOD I HAD NO IDEA!!! That's really offensive...
Watching it now that I'm a grown-up, I realized that the message isn't really progressive. Ariel has all these dreams of adventure, but as soon as she falls in love she doesn't care about anything else and just wants to get married. Not to mention she's quite shallow: she falls in love with Eric literally because he's pretty. At least Eric falls in love with her because he enjoys her company and had a nice time on their date.
Tangled, for example, is a much better movie in that regard: Rapunzel has a dream, she achieves it, and only after that she falls in love. It's her story, and the love story is only an appendage. Much better message for little girls.
And Mulan? It's such a great message for little girls, until the end, when, as her grandma says, "she goes to war and she brings a man home". It's supposed to be a joke, but it's exactly what she does. Would it have killed them to make her tell the Emperor "I'd love to take the job at the Council, I just have to go home, tell my parents I'm alive, and then I'll be back here ready for my new job!".
Let's face it, the best modern animated movies are those by Studio Ghibli, end of story. Then Pixar, although they almost always tell stories only about male characters, and then everyone else.
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Watching it now that I'm a grown-up, I realized that the message isn't really progressive. Ariel has all these dreams of adventure, but as soon as she falls in love she doesn't care about anything else and just wants to get married. Not to mention she's quite shallow: she falls in love with Eric literally because he's pretty. At least Eric falls in love with her because he enjoys her company and had a nice time on their date.
Tangled, for example, is a much better movie in that regard: Rapunzel has a dream, she achieves it, and only after that she falls in love. It's her story, and the love story is only an appendage. Much better message for little girls.
And Mulan? It's such a great message for little girls, until the end, when, as her grandma says, "she goes to war and she brings a man home". It's supposed to be a joke, but it's exactly what she does. Would it have killed them to make her tell the Emperor "I'd love to take the job at the Council, I just have to go home, tell my parents I'm alive, and then I'll be back here ready for my new job!".
Let's face it, the best modern animated movies are those by Studio Ghibli, end of story. Then Pixar, although they almost always tell stories only about male characters, and then everyone else.