Female Aggression

Very interesting class discussion today on female aggression. I like how, in all the examples with the exception of Buffy, the women that was being aggressive was considerably different from the way a man would be aggressive. Not so much in the way they were being perceived though. For example, the deep voice, the amount of space the aggressor was taking up, these are all very manly things about the aggressor in these instances. However, the way in which they were all being aggressive was very different from the normal "bad guy" that a man would play. The Step Mother in Snow White for example was a super human that could change shape and concoct potions. Not only that but she was always planning something. She wasn't just going with the just go around and shoot everyone attitude and ask questions later.

The only thing I really still come back to after seeing these things is that does the movie actually influence us as much as we like to think in class? I would have to say not. I mean I can barely even remember a lot of the story plots in the Disney movies. How is that shaping how I view women today? And not only that, but let's say i re-watch the movies today, or even that I can remember the movies plots today, I think I'm old enough and smart enough now to realize that Snow White isn't anything like a woman of today, and no one really acts like her in real life. I mean even if a little kid is watching it, do they really have the capacity to make the same connections we make in class with women, men, evil, not evil? I'm not so sure..