Response: How To Read Donald Duck

In recent years, Disney has been scrutinized and has been portrayed as a corporation that uses their characters to imply negative ideas. The picture you can see above is a picture of "Donald Duck's girlfriend, Daisy". The reading titled, How to read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic, suggests that one of the many negative ideas Disney portrays by using a female cartoon character is that the female character is surbordinate to the male character. The female character usually is viewed as just a sexual being which does not have a chance to change roles in the "dominator-dominated" relationship. You can see above that the pose of "Donald Duck's girlfriend, Daisy" is a sexual one, portrayed seductively and always so fruitless. One good example of the female not being able to change roles can be seen in Disney's Snow White. Although there is a evil witch character in the movie, her role as a female is to cook up a brew that will catch the male.

- Janeane Delgado