hello mayor
Good day Miss Bellum how is every little
thing
you pencil go snap here let me help you
with that
the things we watched as kids were
deranged
I remember being so fascinated by
subliminal messages the little innuendos
that they would plant in kids TV and
movies I found it so [ __ ] creepy but
what about the actual overt grooming the
misogyny that wasn't hidden it was as
plain as day right there on the screen
made for five-year-old girls I think all
of these things had a larger effect on
me than I could have ever realized I'm
here talk about that effect and how
absolutely
detrimental it is and also just about
how [ __ ] crazy something
[ __ ] cartoons are anyways there was a
study in 2017 essentially what they did
was they took the 10 most popular
children's shows at that time and
analyzed three Random episodes from each
show not only did they find that
sexualization of female characters was
present in every single episode but
there was an average of 24 instances per
episode
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oh hello
it's me the girl who's been talking at
you this entire time
obviously I do not know how to
make a YouTube video this is really hard
actually as it turns out after seeing
that study I decided to watch some
cartoons what I thought was just
so disturbing and so uh I guess we'll
call this video like um
cartoons that messed us up
here's how
we were raised by the media we consumed
the shows and movies made specifically
for us by a bunch of adult men it was
there in those shows that we loved where
we learned how to view our bodies how to
dress
how to get what we want how to view the
other gender but more crucially how they
viewed us
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and how [ __ ] important the few of us
was
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the things that we began to think of as
normal are insane
things like what I'm going to be calling
the um
erect
effect what happens is you've got a
female character she saunters on screen
usually sometimes she's just I don't
know existing and there also exists a
male character with an eye shot he sees
her and there's this um physical
reaction
sometimes he goes stiff as a board like
his whole body does and tumbles away
sometimes something goes boy but like
it's his hat or nose or I don't know
direct effect is one that really has
stood the test of time this [ __ ] goes
back decades maybe a century I don't
know
this is grooming
can you imagine a female equivalent
let's just go ahead and take a look at a
scene where female characters are
thirsting after a male character in a
similar fashion
him he goes isn't he dreaming
the thing about this scene is it's like
okay what's happening here three women
are ogling Gaston and calling him cute
but if you look closer there's a lot
more happening and it's a classic
example of
why I get so pissed off at this [ __ ]
what's important to note here is that
female characters almost never show
interest I'm talking not physical not
emotional they do not show interest
especially in this era and especially in
Disney they almost always have to be
for lack of a better term coerced into
liking their male counterparts
it's literally the plot of this movie I
hope you like it here you can go
anywhere you like except the West Wing
what's in the west it's forbidden
so to have an example of female
characters being like
um
I like the way that guy looks
is
pretty rare honestly it's pretty rare
but
we can't no we can't have nice things we
can't they have to be both objectified
by another character on screen and be
drawn in a way that makes the audience
objectify them as well literally the
animators Drew their tits with such
buoyancy such spring that you would
think they're on the goddamn moon like
look at this
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it just makes me endlessly frustrated
this is a kids movie why is that in
there
why'd you draw them like that that's
weird that's really weird why would you
do that you know what that sounds like a
pretty fun game let's play a round of um
why would you draw her that way
why as grown men would you draw all
teenage girls in a crop top as if a flat
stomach is their cute little accessory
this one's a robot like what why would
you draw all moms with an absolute dump
truck oh wait it's not a dump truck it's
just that her waist is the size of her
arm
why would you draw little girls with
lashes that are mascara and skirts so
short that you can see underneath them
if a character is female no matter what
age they are a sexual object what do you
think that's doing the kids were
actually watching these things over and
over
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it's like there's only one gender in
cartoons female
there's generic
human creature blob
and then there's female
female take a look at this this is
really unbelievable uh here we have the
Chipmunks as you can see they are just
blobs they have no gender they are
simply blobs rodent blobs and clearly
they're Chipmunks they have the buck
teeth they have the Chipmunk fur they
have no shape whatsoever they are blobs
and then
and then we have the the Chipettes
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they're just human girls they have
normal teeth
they have human hair
or mascara than I do
this is this is just gross this is just
gross this is a egregious example but
this is all over the place this is why I
love the internet male wolf female wolf
why are we drawing our female characters
This Way Pigeon
female
female wolf
[ __ ] look at the diversity in the male
characters look at their faces look at
their faces look at our girlies they all
have the same face they all the same
face
this is also the same face and this is a
chicken this one kills me
uh something else that was just so
prevalent in the cartoons that I watched
as a kid was what I'm going to be
calling the
um
our female lead being sold to a man or
captured by one usually to be his bride
effect
to this Jasmine
a beautiful Desert Bloom such as
yourself should be on the arm of the
most powerful man in the world
I wish for Princess Jasmine to fall
desperately in love with me
how old is uh Princess Jasmine supposed
to be
oh
16 she's supposed to be 16. yeah sure
okay uh let's take a look at another
example
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one of my wives
I don't care how important he is how
powerful he is how rich he is
hooray how rich yeah so how are they
gonna Escape
well the same way any female character
gets anything done in a cartoon by
seducing
say I get someone else to watch the
Sheep tonight
a female character could literally have
super powers and the cartoon will still
assert that their most powerful tool is
seduction
it's even a Trope for the male
characters to dress in drag in order to
seduce another male character to get
what they want or sometimes a female
character is just pimped out
looks like your game's over Wonder Boy
is hitting every curve you throw at him
oh yeah
or if maybe I haven't been throwing the
right
curves at him Meg my sweet
which brings us back to these two let's
first take a look at what Jasmine does
to escape
how incredibly handsome you are
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tell me more about
tall and your beard is so
twisted and yes
what a street rat
that was pretty heinous but if you'll
believe it the Chipettes is even worse
it's even worse
I've heard of snake Charmers right well
let's
see
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that's right
our children have um seduced a room full
of snakes
with a song called getting lucky
face now
if you're still here if you made it this
far
are we besties
hey friend
um thank you for watching I don't know
this is so awkward I don't know how to
do this
I don't know how people churn Out
YouTube videos the way that they do but
I'm gonna try my
hardest I don't know how to end this so
I'm just gonna do the cheesy thing from
like 2014. bye