Someone wrote a very long essay doing a break down of all the Pixars film and how there aren’t any lead female characters. The idea seems crazy but when you stop and think about it, there really aren’t any lead female characters. The writer goes on to mention how women in Pixar movies end up being helpers, love interest, and moral compasses to the male.

Whenever a new Pixar movie comes out, I wrestle with the same frustration: Pixar’s gender problem. While Disney’s long history of antipathy toward mothers and the problematic popularity of the Disney Princess line are well-traveled territory for feminist critiques, Pixar’s gender problem often slips under the radar. The Pixar M.O. is (somewhat) subtler than the old your-stepmom-is-a-witch tropes of Disney past. Instead, Pixar’s continued failure to posit female characters as the central protagonists in their stories contributes to the idea that male is neutral and female is particular.