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OF COURSE I realize that! I am not talking about physical "toughness" anyway. Did you read the film description?
Currently going by the running title Nicole, the story revolves Santa’s daughter who is forced to take over the family business when her father decides to retire and brother ends up getting cold feet prior to his first big Christmas Eve flight.
Potentially in this film, the brother is too scared to fulfill his "responsibility" and so the sister has to step in and do the job that he is too overwhelmed to do. Male is weak and inept (and therefore fails), female rises to the challenge and succeeds.
If this were one instance, no problem. But more and more men are made to look like complete idiots in commercials (especially) and shows/film. Have you seen the recent Samsung Galaxy S7 Gear Fit commercials? It is complete body-shaming for men. If those same commercials had women in them, there would be a HUGE public outcry. But because it's men, it's no big deal. Yep - this is a big soap box issue for me...
While I certainly agree body-shaming men should be a way bigger issue, I think as far as movies go there are plenty of options for you to show your boys that showcase strong male role-models. This one movie won't erase the three Santa Clause movies they made with Tim Allen taking on more responsibility and becoming proud of a job he didn't want. Also, knowing Disney, the "weak and inept" brother will probably have some kind of redemption arc and ends up conquering his fears and working with Nicole to save the day or something, which I think would be a really important message for little boys to see - that you can be scared of something but you can conquer those fears. Boys and men are so rarely shown having any emotion or personality in media beyond strong and angry, I think a story where a brother has to conquer his fears with the help of his sister would be a very realistic and rarely told story that would resonate with a lot of boys and young men.
All that being said, it's a little bit early for any of us to assume anything. I mean, how many times have we heard stories about Disney Movies that never happen, or don't happen for ages. They've been working on an Enchanted sequel for 10 years, and we're just now seeing the Beauty and the Beast movie that was originally announced in 2009, then cancelled in 2011, then revived in 2014. This movie might never happen.
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