Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy accuses Disney of making men out to be "fools and villains."
Disney’s Frozen is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and because of its unique focus on female empowerment, it has remained a topic of cultural conversation over a year after its release. While most critics have praised the film’s plot, Fox News’ Fox & Friends believes the enchanting story of two sisters is Disney’s attempt to make men out to be “fools and villains,” and implored parents during Wednesday’s segment to stop letting their children watch the film.
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy opened today’s episode with a rant against Frozen and the man-hating mindset he believes it encourages in young women.
“From what we’ve seen, it looks like Frozen depicts men as evil and cold and bumblers, that’s what it looks like. What kind of message does that send?” Doocy asked his guest Penny Nance, the CEO of Concerned Women for America.
The Concerned Women for America is a Christan women’s activist group that is known for being strongly opposed to feminism and has intensely conservative views on abortion, same-sex marriage and stem cell research. Nance’s response made it clear that her group thinks Hollywood isn’t giving viewers enough positive male role models, a stark contrast to the typical media criticism that there aren’t enough female role models in today’s films.
“It’s not just Disney; Hollywood in general has often sent a message that men are superfluous, that they’re stupid, that they’re in the way and if they contribute anything to the family, it’s a paycheck. And that is not true, and it is not good social science.” said Nance, who expressed concern that the joy Frozen has brought little girls has come at the expense of their brothers. “We want to raise real men. We want to encourage masculinity and not villainize [it].”
Of the top 20 films released in 2014, 13 films featured at least one male protagonist. However, Doocy seemed to completely ignore that statistic, and concluded the segment stating that “it would be nice for Hollywood to have more male figures in those kind of movies as heroes.”
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