You know a lot of feminists complained about it. One of the biggest argument was she had a good relationship with her father and a strained one with her mother which just continued to hold up the patriarchy. I seriously could not believe feminists complained about that. Some of the people who complained about it not being a pro-women story I really don't think watched it because they complained about stuff that just wasn't there. It is kind of ridiculous.
But as you mentioned, Merida did not get married at the end. The movie was not a love story. It was a mother/daughter story and I don't know about you but it felt very close to my mom and me. Actually, after I saw the movie I called my mom to tell her so. So she went and saw it and absolutely agreed.
And yes, the whole, not one being right and the other being wrong. I thought that was brilliant too.
Le sigh. :( She got on better with her father cos they enjoyed similar things, not cos of any gender issues. It was a very pro-woman story. Especially the scene where she said she would be competing for her own hand, I found that very powerful. Mother/daughter relationships are like that, they can't all be like the Gilmore Girls! There are tons of films where fathers and sons don't get along, why doesn't anyone complain about that? Okay, that's not exactly a good comparison. XD But still! I was saying to my sister after we finished watching it, I can't remember the last time I saw a film where the focus was the relationship between the mother and her daughter, and it turned out good in the end! In Disney films, the mother's always dead, absent or evil. Except for Tiana and her mother I think. It's always mothers and sons. Fathers get both though.
There are plenty of things feminist should be complaining about when it comes to female portrayals on screen, I don't think Brave's one of them.
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You know a lot of feminists complained about it. One of the biggest argument was she had a good relationship with her father and a strained one with her mother which just continued to hold up the patriarchy. I seriously could not believe feminists complained about that. Some of the people who complained about it not being a pro-women story I really don't think watched it because they complained about stuff that just wasn't there. It is kind of ridiculous.
But as you mentioned, Merida did not get married at the end. The movie was not a love story. It was a mother/daughter story and I don't know about you but it felt very close to my mom and me. Actually, after I saw the movie I called my mom to tell her so. So she went and saw it and absolutely agreed.
And yes, the whole, not one being right and the other being wrong. I thought that was brilliant too.
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There are plenty of things feminist should be complaining about when it comes to female portrayals on screen, I don't think Brave's one of them.
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