A thought on Disney stories

My recent visit to Disneyland makes me thinking about Disney stories. Why Disney stories are so patriarchs? Little or no role of mother is found in most of their stories. Starting from Cinderella who is mistreated by a stepmother to Bambi whose mother was shot and kill at its young age, a good role model and a strong character of a mother is never seen in Disney stories. In most of the stories, the main characters ( usually princess) are raised up by a father, who care less about their daughters or who always have conflict or misunderstanding with their teenage daughters or sons. Those examples can be seen in the story lines of "Snow White", "Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", "Finding Nemo", and "Atlantis". Mulan and sleeping beauty Aurora have both parents. However, in "Mulan", the father is the main supporting character and mother is seen very weakly. In "Sleeping Beauty", the parents did not even take the responsibility of raising up princess Aurora. Most of the other characters in different stories are parent less. For example, Aurthur in "Sword in the Stone", the little wooden boy in Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tarzan, Hercules, and Mogali in "Jungle Book". Only Simba in "Lion King" is raised up by the surviving mother lion (as far as I can remembered). It is just sad that a role of a good mother cannot be find in any of Disney stories.

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