TURK-KUN
Bronze
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2023
- Posts
- 314
- Reputation
- 758
The wokeness in Inside out 2 was very minimal, yeah, but it was still there.
The most noticeable thing was the erasure of femininity. All the teenage girls behaved like dudes and that was celebrated. Riley walks into the locker room and it was a very loud, sweaty, rowdy environment. Everyone's body language was very masculine. She is then approached by a bulky girl with short-hair who acts like a frat boy and exuberates zero femininity. She is considered to be a "cool older girl" in Riley's eyes.
Riley also had a strong obsession / admiration with one of the girls that could be interpreted as attraction. She was the only girl in the whole movie that had feminine energy to her. The dynamic between Riley and her was like that of a guy trying to impress a girl. At no point did Riley ever do anything that would be considered girly in the entire movie.
Those things can be maybe explained away by the fact that it was an athletic / competitive environment and Riley is too young to have grown into her femininity so she still acts quite tomboyish. But still. I noticed there was a deliberate attempt to challenge gender stereotypes.
There were also almost no white people in the entire movie. Other than Riley and her parents, who come from the first movie, I don't think there were none with a speaking role. Riley's hockey coach was black, almost the entire camp was composed of all sorts of minorities, there was even a muslim girl wearing a sportive hijab who was one of the most prominent girls in the team. There were like two white girls who were background characters in a room with like 20 people. Not very representative of America's demographics if you ask me.
The most noticeable thing was the erasure of femininity. All the teenage girls behaved like dudes and that was celebrated. Riley walks into the locker room and it was a very loud, sweaty, rowdy environment. Everyone's body language was very masculine. She is then approached by a bulky girl with short-hair who acts like a frat boy and exuberates zero femininity. She is considered to be a "cool older girl" in Riley's eyes.
Riley also had a strong obsession / admiration with one of the girls that could be interpreted as attraction. She was the only girl in the whole movie that had feminine energy to her. The dynamic between Riley and her was like that of a guy trying to impress a girl. At no point did Riley ever do anything that would be considered girly in the entire movie.
Those things can be maybe explained away by the fact that it was an athletic / competitive environment and Riley is too young to have grown into her femininity so she still acts quite tomboyish. But still. I noticed there was a deliberate attempt to challenge gender stereotypes.
There were also almost no white people in the entire movie. Other than Riley and her parents, who come from the first movie, I don't think there were none with a speaking role. Riley's hockey coach was black, almost the entire camp was composed of all sorts of minorities, there was even a muslim girl wearing a sportive hijab who was one of the most prominent girls in the team. There were like two white girls who were background characters in a room with like 20 people. Not very representative of America's demographics if you ask me.
