http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/02/04/fox-news-guest-says-frozen-makes-men-look-like-villains-and-fools-welcome-to-the-new-culture-wars/
In this article, Hunter Schwarz discusses a recent debate on Fox News about the Disney movie Frozen. Penny Young Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, said that the film empowers women by tearing down men. Even though Frozen is 15 months old, the soundtrack sold more copies than albums by several well-known artists like Iggy Azalea last week alone. This extreme popularity may explain why it's still being discussed more than a year later.
I personally think this is ridiculous. Just because a movie empowers women and the main villain is male does not make it degrading to men. There are three men in this film (four counting Olaf), and yes, two of them are villains. Newsflash: the villain in Avengers? Male. The villain in the Matrix? Male. How about the Hobbit movies? Male. Most villains are male. It's not new. None of the other films stated to be 'unfair to men' - the Hunger Games, Divergent- are offensive to men either. There are lots of good guys in these movies, but because they empower girls and the main villain is male, apparently they're degrading to men. Are you kidding me?
People annoy me. I don't understand why they believe that this film would degrade men. Pretty much every movie ever made degrades someone in someway. I think people just need to get over it.
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