Pixar Changes Brave Director, Prompts Sexism Accusations

This isn't sexism. Male centric topics? Shocking, considering it is a studio founded males, who were the leads in the team for a long time and who made movies based on their childhood interests.

And you don't get a much more left-leaning group of folks than the Pixar team. San Francisco Bay Area artists making films, come on.

This is just grandstanding from people who don't want to accept that somewhere in the production pipeline of this movie Brenda Chapman wasn't able to handle all aspects of the job. Even making this a conflict will probably have a worse impact on future roles for minorities because anytime a company gives someone in a “minority” an opportunity and then that person fails, everyone screams sexism or racism.

And yet when someone who falls into those categories succeeds that same group does not rain accolades on their shoulders. Which I'm also against, because it shouldn't be an issue.

If someone is good enough they'll get the job done, if they're not they won't. At a company like Pixar, any minority status doesn't impact that and people need to get off their political correctness high horse.

Pixar makes boy-centric movies that may have supporting female characters. Spacemen/cowboys/cars/fish are not inherently boy-centric. Pixar's choice to feature male lead characters that have meaningful story arcs may be boy-centric, but is it sexist? Look at the positive supporting roles the women have — Dory (not too bright), Jessie, Boo (who speaks babytalk), Bo-Peep. Compare these to the male supporting characters (Rex, Ham, Crush, Mike, Randall, Doc,Prospector Pete) — sure the male supporting charcters have better lines and more development, but is that sexist? Does the audience of boys really need to know more about BoPeep other than she likes Woody? Do they really need to know about Jessie's loss of her owner? Is playing to your audience sexist?

Brother, thank you so much for your bravery. Duplicate you by a thousand times, execute a giant studio recruitment fair and maybe Hollywood will have the ability to really surprise it's audience for a change.

It's true that Pixar has made movies with lots of boy iconography, but girls love them too! And what's more, hadn't the animation industry been controlled by an army of princesses for decades?

I’m not saying they’re enlightened, I’m saying sexism isn’t exactly par for the course for those groups of people, in particular the people at Pixar.

What is dumb about a male founded studio making movies about things they like? People start companies to make products they are interested in. Lassetter grew up around cars, so he made a movie about cars. That is the culture he grew up with. Why should he ignore that? And why is that a bad thing?

I never said that every time someone in a minority gets a chance they fail, I said that every time a failure in that situation does occur people get self-righteous about it and blame it on prejudice. In a lot of cases, and odds are this one, it has nothing to do with prejudice.

Pixar is hardly a group of white guys succeeding with white guys at the expense of all other groups.