Thank you for not being perky

Last night I was thinking the The Incredibles passes the test but after looking at the female interactions more closely I think it starts to lose points.

The main female characters are Elasti girl, her daughter, Edna Mode and the evil henchwoman. So we have a mother daughter relationship, a jealousy relationship and a relationship between a housewife former professional super hero and an old collegue / friend.

Where are Elasi Girl’s old super hero buddies? Why isn’t she out with them having girls’ night out and talking about the good old days and how if a baby pukes on them one more time they will go insane? Instead we have the man bored by his boring job, going out with old super hero buddies to discuss the good old days and sneaking around doing pissant hero work. Then he is recruited for meaningful hero work by a sexy woman who flirts with him, he gains confidence and gets in shape and is happy but is only able to do all of this while lieing to his wife.

Why, in the end, does the daughter gain confidence only to be able to look a boy in the eye and help him ask her for a date while the brother gains confidence to compete and win at sports?

Why does the evil henchwoman go soft when she A. realizes there are children involved and B. when she sees how much Mr Incredible is willing to sacrafice for his loved ones?

All the interactions between Elasti Girl and Edna Mode are about a man.

Peter Pan
Wendy: is brought to island to be mother figure in which role she scolds and comforts. Tries to be nice to Tinkerbell who is jealous and hostile. Is jealous of Tigerlily’s interactions with Peter.
Tigerlily: does not interact with other females. is apparently, as a representative of all indian maids, the reason the red man is red. She is so hot that they turn red…
Tinkerbell: we first see her inspecting her hips and worrying that they are too big. She is then jealous and hostile to wendy, even endangering wendy’s life because of jealousy.

Cars
female car love interest. end of story.

Up
Wife: is DEAD the whole movie but we get some flashback back story. We first see her as a fun, adventurous kid with dreams and drive and creativity. She grows up, gets married and is sad she cant have kids. She never gets to realize any of her dreams. She ends up being the driving force for fun and interesting things in her marriage. Then she dies. her sad story is used as a tearjerker for movie goers.
Bird: mistaken for male. is hunted and harassed to the point where she can not care for her children and must be rescued.

Fail, fail, fail and fail.

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