Post Princess Models of Gender

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Ken Gillam and Shannon R. Wooden’s "Post Princess Models of Gender: The new man in Disney-Pixar.” Convinces the audience on how movie studio, Disney-Pixar has been using a post-feminist model of gender through its “New Man Model” throughout the past fifteen years. Recently, the movie “The Hunger Games” has two characters Peeta and Gale, respectively show a typical representation of the “New Man” model and alpha male model.

 

Peeta, a sensible, tender and a little bit emotional man is the most feminine one in the game. He’s not much of an outdoorsman, is in touch with his soft side. Peeta is totally and completely in love with Katniss and his ongoing affections make him become a symbol of the romantic.

 

Gale is a responsible and masculine man, and as Katniss says, “he is strong enough to handle the work in the mines, and he can hunt." Gale is reliable, and each and every person within the community looks up to him due to his authoritative nature. He represents a classic alpha male, and he was trying to break the rules in order to feed the others. Moreover, he is also has a feeling to Knatniss, but he sees her as a bro instead of telling her his feeling that is different from Peeta’s romantic.

 

In the early movie period, Gale as a model of alpha male that is a contrast to Peeta’s tenderness. He should be a hero in the movie, and gain Katniss’ heart. But Katniss eventually had chosen Peeta for her lover instead of Gale. This is a startling contrast to the plot mode in the early 90s’ movie alpha male is the hero and wins everything. The latest trend of “New Man Model” is becoming popular, there are many movies are following this post-feminist line such as Hunger Game and Toy Story. I personally think the using of “New man” model is more popular than Alpha male because that female and male have the equal chance to compete, and males are transforming to have more feminine qualities.

Question: What do you think about the males in nowadays usually have more feminine qualities than the males in the last century?