To further investigate the research question, a group of students in my COMM111 class (including myself) reached out into the world wide web and looked into some research done by others on the same subject: what influence Disney has on children. More specifically younger females.
In one of our sources we found an example of how children chose to play with toys. A group of kids which included both boys and girls were given set objects after watching a set of Disney films. The little girls chose to play with the dolls and pink objects. The boys would try to sometimes play with the girls' toys, however the little girls didn't like this and were quick to dismiss the efforts made by the boys to involve themselves in the girls' play. The girls didn't think it was right for the boy's to be playing as part of their role playing with the feminine toys.
Here my group and I found that this wasn't so surprising, and that it was expected that the girls would want to play with girls with their girly toys. What did take us by surprise was the fact that the girls didn't want the boys to play with them.
So to reiterate the actions of the girls role-playing with dolls was not surprising, it was their reaction to the boys wanting to be involved that was surprising.
This is a theme found in many current researchers and we believe Disney is taking this research into account when coming out with new movies. Making women more independent and their is a larger variety of races that come across in the newer Disney movies.
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