Christensen

Christensen talks about how the media in all forms depict things that set unrealistic goals and characteristics for children to follow which I got from the quote, “Our society’s culture industry colonizes their mind’s and teaches them how to act live and dream.” And she also wants children to question the secret code s of power as supported in the statement, “I want my students to question this accepted knowledge and the secret education delivered by cartoons as well as by the traditional literacy canon.”

This piece was interesting, although through other classes I had already learned about how the Disney Corporation sets incredibly ridiculous standards of beauty and sexist norms that girls should aspire to. For the most part can you think of one Disney princess that doesn’t need, or rely on a man to be her saving grace? In fact they’ve done this so much in fact it has inspired full movements against their ways. A person shouldn’t feel like any less of a person because of how they are portrayed. “I used to wonder why my people don’t believe in themselves, and then I saw the way they portrayed us to everyone else. They cursed us to only see the worst in ourselves, blind to the fact that we’re only deceiving ourselves.” Is a lyric by a man named immortal technique who is very political in nature who discuss the in his music how the mainstream society takes stereotypes for fact and have ruined the way that we as people of color see ourselves. Like the woman Kenya in the essay who says, “…women who aren’t white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess.” Which is true, has Disney ever had a black princess? To me the closest they ever came was Nala from the Lion King, but she was a lion. The story took place in Africa so it would have been a prime time to have one, but instead they’d rather have an animal?