Frozen Is A Good Example For Young Ladies

I summarize:1. You claim the movie "Frozen" is a good example because it shows that "love at first sight" possibly leads to a bad choice for a relationship.2. You claim the movie sets a good example because "family comes before anything else" because a family's love for each other can overcome anything.I will now present my argument why the film sets a bad example for young ladies, and will close this round with a rebuttal of your arguments.Opening argument:The movie "Frozen" propagates a misogynistic, sexist role model and depicts family life as abusive.Elsa, one of the main protagonists of the film, has great power. Because of an accident - when she was just a child - she willingly locks herself away and allows her sister, whose memory has been wiped of the incident - to be locked up as well.This is clearly child abuse, since her sister Anna is suffering greatly from the situation.When the parents die, another three years pass in which time both sisters continue accepting their suffering, thus propagating the idea that young ladies have to obey, no matter how much they suffer from it.When Elsa is crowned, she has an argument with her sister and loses control over her power, causing her to flee the castle and cast an eternal winter on the land, while building an ice castle, celebrating her "freedom" in yet another remote castle ("Let it go!"), while dressing in a fancy dress and putting on make-up.This is not a good example for young ladies. It's a bad cliché that powerful women are dangerous and reckless, even merciless, and that you can only be "free" by becoming a fashion model.Being a model is a bad ideal. We know how the pressure on models and pageant contestants drives them into eating disorders, drug abuse and more [1]. Elsa shows characteristics of mental and physical disorders, in particular depression (locking herself away for YEARS) and Anorexia nervosa (her waist is thinner than her head), setting a really bad example for young ladies to follow.Women in this film are permanently abused. Anna's memories are removed, the children are locked away, even after they are orphaned, Anna is denied permission to marry whomever she pleases, Elsa is driven from her home by prejudice against her powers, she is later beaten unconscious, Anna is denied help by her lover as both sisters are instrumentalized by men in order to allow those access to the throne.And even if everything turns out fine in the end, when the film is through, we've seen two girls suffering, suffering and suffering, while the men didn't suffer nearly as much.That's the message of this film: women need to suffer before everything becomes magically wonderful.Well, if we look at reality, indeed women are often discriminated and underprivileged, they are abused as sex symbols by the pornography industry, they are subjected to unrealistic beauty ideals (in the case of Frozen with the even worse pressure of being independent and powerful in ADDITION to being physically "perfect") - but in the end: is there really always a magical future where everybody's happy?The film propagates the illusion that if you suffer enough, somehow the love of your family will someday make it all better.But this is a lie, even within the film: it's the parents who don't help Anna master her powers in time. It's they who lock the sisters away and then head out to sea where they die, leaving the children unattended. That's the love of a family? If the parents had really loved the children, they would have shared this exile with the children. But instead they don't even reach out to Elsa who's locked herself up. The parents allow their own child to be consumed by guilt over an ACCIDENT that luckily didn't have a lasting impression. Is that LOVE?This film is only a vehicle to show us suffering girls, which induces protective instincts in the audience, causing everybody to be sympathetic with the two girls, disregarding that none of this would have been necessary, had the parents lived up to their responsibility of teaching Elsa control over her powers. Funnily enough, in the end "love" is the secret to controlling the power, which is irrefutable proof that Elsa was given too little love by her parents as a child, even before the accident with Anna.This movie shows us a defunct family life, full of false guilt and depression. It is indeed a bad example. Rebuttal:1. Love at first sightIt is true that our first love is rarely "the one". The first love often ends in a painful break-up.And it is good that way, I say. Frozen propagates the idea that there still IS "the right one" out there, but that is an unrealistic, romantic dream that leads to young ladies having false expectations about relationships.We are all entitled to making mistakes. The experience of our first lovelornness is an important one, for how will we ever cherish love if we never experienced how much it hurts to lose it?How will we ever learn how to identify a suitable partner if we are not allowed to learn from our own mistakes?It is important that at some point in our life we have the freedom to pick a wrong partner for the wrong reasons, so that we might grow up and find a mature, lasting love later on.So it is not per se a bad thing to fall blindly in love with the wrong person. This mistake will make us stronger and teach us the wisdom to make a better pick next time.On the other hand, sitting around waiting for "the one" will not teach anyone anything. It will only lead to depression, the fear of finally being left on the shelf and ultimately making a hasty decision (probably a wrong one) to pick some guy before it's too late, which will THEN turn out to be the same mistake we could have made years before.The problem is this: nobody knows the future. We only know the past. And from that we can learn. So, what do we learn from the past? This: even before the movie "Frozen", young couples found each other and lived happily ever after, while other young couples broke up. Children are born nonetheless. So, this makes it likely that things worked as they were supposed to before this film, and will hopefully continue to do so, regardless.We're all entitled to our mistakes. It's called freedom of choice. Who are we to decide which early love is "right" and which is not BEFOREHAND? We can't. Only the eventual failure can prove a love wrong. The heart wants what the heart wants. It is vulnerable, but each wound makes it so much stronger.2. Family goes above anything elseIf that is the message of the film, the film is immature and childish, and definitely not a good guide for young LADIES.The famous and influential psychologist Prof. Lawrence Kohlberg has established six phases of moral development."Family above all" falls into class three: Follow family, group rules [2].This phase is attributed to children of early school age, way before the teenage years.Average humans are expected to develop to level 5 throughout their early adulthood: "create new laws", based on Utilitarian rules that serve the benefit of ALL.Level four is still above level three, and entails strict obedience towards law and order.So basically, if we take "Frozen" as an example, we'd be disregarding LAW in favour of the family. Society would fall apart if we all acted that selfishly.And quite frankly, it even sounds like a Mafia slogan.And which family, might I ask? If family REALLY went above all in that film, which are we talking about? Where do the parents fit in?How does locking two innocent girls away for years "for their best interest" fit in? If family went above all, why would the parents hide their daughter away because of her powers? Would a real family not be supportive of her exceptional talent?No, this film is a bad example. A mockery of family life and love in general.[1]: http://link.springer.com...[2]: http://www.socialphy.com...