This video is the song Poor Unfortunate Souls form Disney's The Little Mermaid. In it, it hints to the mass idea of women being subordinate to men such as when Ursula makes comments such as "you don't need a voice up there", "men don't like women who gossip and talk to much", "a killer body is key", and so on and so forth. Three articles form this semester that this video clip relates to are Butlers "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" which discusses female insubordination, the documentary Mouse Trapped which we watched in class which talks about the negative messages Disney movies submit, and Arch's article "Monsters, monarchs, and Multiculturalism" which also relates back to the same idea of Disney. All these piece give us a similar idea of how the media tends to portray women in the same way, even if they are attempting not to do so, such as Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, but even this attempt has faults. This shows how in an approach to cultural studies the media continues to portray feminism in terms of beauty and as insubordinate and the mass media would need to change in order for this ideal to change.
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