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I Am Here For "Beauty and the Beast" Tearing Apart Fragile Masculinity

And this isn't even everything.

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I Am Here For "Beauty and the Beast" Tearing Apart Fragile Masculinity
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"Beauty and the Beast" has always been my favorite Disney princess movie ever since I was a kid because even then I knew it was a cinematic masterpiece. However, after seeing the new version of the movie, I fell in love with it even more. While the updated version of the movie covers more socially than the original, the message that stood out to me was how much this movie tears apart fragile masculinity through Gaston.

1. To start, he feels that he has been wronged in some sense because Belle exercise her right to say "no" to him.

This can easily be compared to how some boys react when you don't want to talk to/date/send them pictures/etc. in today's society.

2. When he tries to literally trap Belle (on multiple occasions) into marrying him.

Nothing says "marry me" like insulting a woman's worth, intelligence, trapping her against her own door and blackmailing her by threatening to have her father sent to an insane asylum.

3. This one speaks for itself.

Because God forbid a woman has the same ability to do what a man does!

4. Which is nicely contrasted with how a man should treat a woman.

The Beast also gives her an entire library that in a non-Disney world is probably worth more than I will ever be and bigger than any house I'll ever own.

5. The fact that he has to sing a whole song about how masculine is to prove that he is still "the man" because he was rejected by a woman.


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