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[moominmolly]

I haven't seen Up yet. I probably will. But when I first read the synopsis, something snapped: AAAUUUUGH YET ANOTHER ADVENTURE MOVIE ABOUT A BOY OMFG. I think I bored everyone that day with my blah blah no movies about girls blah blah blah. But all I've seen so far are people talking about how good it was, or how sad, or possibly both. Nothing new there, really. So it was wonderful to catch this on twitter: "Ask Pixar to make a movie about a girl? Why, that's just P.C. B.S.!", referencing this open letter on NPR.org, entitled "Dear Pixar, from all the girls with band-aids on their knees". Read them both. It won't take long. (Also of note: a column about the Bechdel rule, and how hard it is to find movies that fit it.)

No point here, just life as usual.

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[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read that. I am just noting that reading the article is the first time it occurred to me that someone would class the "the Incredibles" as a movie about "a boy and what happens to him". For me it isn't that, any more that it is a "girl and what happens to her".

sure, I still want "a girl and what happens to her" from Pixar, and I have always totally been drawn to stuff like The Westing Game and From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler, where the girl just happens to be a girl, a smart girl who cool stuff happens to, but therefore looks that little bit more like me in my imaginary childhood head, except with more adventures.

But now, especially as a parent who ought to be thinking about what messages my kid gets and how, and as someone who has put a lot of effort into this thing called a family in the past few years - boy do I love "a family and what happens to them", too. I wonder whether it's possibly more balanced than either having a boy and what happens to him *or* a girl and what happens to her, actually.