Talk:Judy Hopps/@comment-27997791-20160318080507

While it's obvious that Zootopia is a lot about ethnic prejudice and descrimination, with the relationships between the various species representing similar relationships between real ethnic groups in our world, it also seems to me that Judy being a bunny is supposed to be a metaphor for what it's like to be a woman in real life.

The species in Zootopia don't seem to be directly representative of groups in society, which I'd consider a good thing, you don't want the message to be too direct, but the bunnies in the movie seem characterized by how small, weak, scared and even dumb they are seen as, which doesn't quite seem to match any kinds of ethnic stereotypes I'm aware of. But pretty much all of those traits can be kinda connected to the way that women can be stereotyped. While it doesn't seem implied that anyone in the movie dissmisses her becasue of her gender, I think we're supposed to understand that that is what her struggel is supposed to represent.

Again, I think it's kinda cool how this movie can comment on sexism with being really direct about it, or being all "girl power", but instead by having Judys species represent the reasons why we might dissmis or stereotype women in real life.

This idea seems furhter hinted at by the fact that Nick comments on how she "throws like a bunny", which reminds one of the expression "to throw like a girl", and he even teases her by asking if "all bunnies are bad at driving", which corresponds to the stereotyp that women are bad divers.

I'm not exactly a big SJW, but I think this seems like a creative way to talk to children about sexism (most likely without them realizing it), that doesn't feel too obvious or cringey.