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Ouch! Lack of Females in "Bee Movie" Stings

by Suzanne Reisman at 5:20am Sun, 11 Nov 2007 under Entertainment & Culture, Gender, Green, Pop Culture, Bee Movie
Sex and gender in animated films tends to make me batty. Last fall, we were subjected to Barnyard, a movie about rebellious cows in which all male and female bovines were white with black spots and had udders. Whether this portrayal of bulls as cows was due to an udder (ha ha) lack of knowledge about bovine sex or a subversive attempt to present transgendered individuals as normal is unclear to me. (I wish it were a movie supporting transgenderism, but based on the inanity of the film, I suspect otherwise.) Now we have Bee Movie.