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Geena Davis Forum on Gender and Children:
Searching the Cels for Girl Mice and Ninjas
by Sara Voorhees

March 29,2008

Geena Davis was watching preschool TV shows and children's videos with her two-year-old daughter when she began to wonder: where were the girls? Where were the animated girl mice, the girl ninjas, the girl puppy dogs? Boy rodents, canines and martial artists seemed to dominate every frame and animated cel, but only an occasional female came popping in for comic or gratuitous effect.