by Alex Drake

Created on: May 25, 2009

Do Disney Movies affect boys differently than girls? That's a dumb question. The gender issue has nothing to do with it folks, it's about the human being underneath the label "boy" or "girl." We have to look at what kind of person our son or daughter or friend or brother or sister is and then analyze how susceptibleto bad influences they are. Some children are just naturally more resistant to peer pressure or influence from the media, where as others are the "get along go along" type, who'd prefer to latch on to something and not ask questions despite the harm it may do them. Me being a sixteen year old, I know the very limits peer pressure has, NONE.

People will try to force you into anything if it's in their best interest, or if they think it's in theirs. What do you think girls are naturally a weaker gender than boys? Physically maybe, but mentally every girl I know has a higher Chemistry grade and Geometry grade than I do. Environment has a great deal to do with it too. You can't expect the kid to jump out the womb knowing everything to do and what to say and how to act towards every single situation in the book. Parents have been there, done that, and know better, or should know better by this point and are entirely reasonable for the well being of their little one. In this case that means teaching them how to deal with the pressures of media, and on a smaller, but much larger scale in their own world, kids.

Remember the countless times you would've rather gone somewhere else or done something different but your friend said "No! No! Come do this! All the cool kids will be there man!" So you grudgingly went, hoping to high heaven you'd have a good time, but knowing deep inside your gutless pit of a stomach that you wouldn't. Well, it hasn't changed much since the 70's Mom....Dad....what was cool for kids then is most likely still cool now...in high school anyway...I think you get the drift. Now granted, most kids will be watching these movies at a younger age and a lot of the "can do hands on" parenting won't come until later on in their surly, sulking, teenage lives, but I can't tell you how many kids I remember being that sweet innocent little tyke back in the days of West Sand Lake Elementary who turned out to be more trouble than John Gotti and Al Capone fused together into one superb mobster. I often scratch my head and wonder what happened, but i know...It's a combination of who they are, and who their parents are...what their parent's did, and what they didn't do.

So in the end, each little tot is different, each human being cannot be labeled as a "boy" or a "girl" in the terms you've put up here, it just doesn't work, and don't forget, the part that's in their hands, comes long after the part that's in yours.

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