Duck Tales
It's funny to think that one of my favorite cartoons growing up was Duck Tales and yet I never really questioned about where "mom" and "dad" were for Huey, Louie, Dewey, and Wendy. Uncle Scrooge was just their caretaker in my eyes and I didn't question much else. But the female and male roles were something I did happen to take notice of as a kid. Despite the fact that Daisy was seen as this "domineering woman", Wendy is rather helpless and cries a lot. Whereas her brothers are always going on adventures and trying to save the world of all the "bad" guys. The author's point was to take the reader and place them into seeing these types of roles how they played out for children's ideas for what "girls" are supposively like and what "boys" should be like.
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It is true, as little kids we never analyze cartoons we just watch them and subconsciously absorb all the messages which in many cases are the same: gender roles and capitalism. As we see in this video the female character is the passive and sweet one while the male characters are adventurous and portrayed as tough. While the uncle shows capital accumulation.
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