Today we talked about gender in animation. Women in history have always been second place to men, wrongly so, and in art continued through to the beginning of animation. Things such as portraying beauty at an unachievable level and portraying women to be weak, though despite what you may assume there was still evidence of strong women in art such as the painting Judith beheading holofernes, showing two women killing a corrupt man.
The depiction of women is seen as a huge problem in animation, particularly digital animation and video games. I feel that this will take a turn in a similar way to the depiction of women in art in the past, that it will improve, though it may not seem as bad as people make it out to be now, with plenty of strong women portrayed in video games and animation.
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