{"id":54,"date":"2007-11-27T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:02:15","slug":"mammalian-misogyny-in-mammoth-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/11\/27\/mammalian-misogyny-in-mammoth-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammalian misogyny in mammoth movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thehathorlegacy.info\/ice-age-setting-female-characters-back-a-few-millennia\/\">The Hathor Legacy<\/a>,\u00a0 C. L. Hanson lays out a case for the unexamined misogyny of the Pixar film \u201cIce Age,\u201d in which the adventures of the protagonist mammals is launched by the death of a mother for the sake of her child. Does this mean that the filmmakers consider female characters disposable, or that they failed to realize that they treat female characters in this disposable fashion? I happen to think that the mother died of natural causes, and rather than being abandoning her\u00a0to an unaided demise, Manny the Morose Mammoth was watching her last act before exhaustion and injury closed inevitably upon her.<\/p>\n<p>Not the most imaginative plotting; the lazy device of the mother\u2019s death in this film does not set female characters back a few millennia; but it does reflect a gender imbalance, a lack of concern for that imbalance, and is an amplification \u2014 albeit a quiet one \u2014 of the role of mother\u00a0mere vessel, fulfilling her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bradwell_v._Illinois#The_Court.27s_decision\" title=\"The benign offices of wife and mother!\">noble duty<\/a>: bear the baby, birth the baby, save the baby, expire.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you agree with the author or not, the question is a fair one, and a smart one, the sort of discerning interrogation of culture that is bound to expose even the most firmly rooted gender preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Hathor Legacy,\u00a0 C. L. Hanson lays out a case for the unexamined misogyny of the Pixar film \u201cIce Age,\u201d in which the adventures of the protagonist mammals is launched by the death of a mother for the sake of her child. Does this mean that the filmmakers consider female characters disposable, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/11\/27\/mammalian-misogyny-in-mammoth-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mammalian misogyny in mammoth movie?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,93],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}