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I don't think I saw the second one. At least I don't remember it, but there was a time I got drunk and binged a bunch of disney movies so it might be buried in there somewhere.
But yeah that's not surprising. Media depictions of gender relations tend to be pretty terrible. I wish they could just depict both genders in a positive light instead of playing into this duality one male versus female.
Like, women's empowerment doesn't have to mean treating men like shit. Even the classic feminist philosophers didn't view it that way. But for some reason these past couple decades there's been this huge push to sort of invert the patriarchy instead of abolishing it.
I've tried pointing that out and explaining how egalitarianism means equal footing, but people just call me a redpill incel nice guy or whatever. I could say something along the lines of "This gender war is toxic and there's gotta be a better way" and they'll go "What gender war? There's no gender war! You're toxic for even thinking there's a gender war."
Sigh. I'm tired, boss...