![]() ![]() When I think about Disney animated characters, the ones who stand out as being heavily overly sexualized are Kida ( Atlantis), Jasmine, and Esmeralda ( Hunchback).īody dysmorphia starts somewhere, and while I’m not laying it on Disney’s doorstep entirely, they play into norms with the body types they (overall) promote and the way they sexualize them, especially when it comes to non-white Princesses tending to get more sexualized than others. What we are addressing is the way that the movie decides that her sexuality has to be a part of her character. This isn’t to destroy your childhood with feminist discourse, or to say that it takes away from the things that make Jasmine great: she is kind, brave, and the Aladdin television show further allows her to be a hero in her own right. The outfit she is wearing, the way her body is animated, and the situation she is in (forced to marry by her next birthday-sweet sixteen) is very adult for a children’s movie. Jasmine is, for all intents and purposes, a child. Jafar’s age isn’t very clear, but he is clearly a middle-aged man, and the scene-definitely a queer awakening for me (and many, I’m sure) as a kid and teenager-also shows the weird way in which male animators sexualize teenage girls. There are two scenes of her being “seductive”-one to troll Aladdin for being a f*ckboy in disguise and one trying to distract Jafar with her body. In comparison, Jasmine is very sexualized in the film. However, even Ariel, with her long flowing red hair and midriff, gets covered up for most of the movie, and her nudity is treated as childish innocence. It wasn’t until I was much older that I realized that whole scene dressing her meant Ariel was on that beach naked and Eric thankfully didn’t appear earlier. Unless it were explicitly stated, why would you look at Princess Jasmine and think she’s a teenager?Īriel at least got to say she was sixteen years old (and certainly not a child anymore, daddy Triton!) to clarify to all the horny adult males that she was, in fact, meant to be a kid. A teenager and an adult aren’t that different in your frame of reference. Ages for the Disney Princesses are very … let’s just say “misleading.” When you’re a kid, everyone looks like grownups. ![]()
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