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stimmybruno · 2 years

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i’m rlly glad with the way luisa was portrayed in encanto. bcus she is strong, she is built muscly and broad and tall. BUT she also wears dresses and doesn’t have a ‘boyish’ hairstyle. she isn’t masculine. she’s feminine.

yk a lot of women in fiction who are portrayed as strong are always immediately made to be masculine as well. and obviously this solidifies the “men are strong” stereotype. women in fiction who are muscly, or who are fighters or who are strong are almost ALWAYS portrayed as masculine but luisa isn’t.

women can be strong and feminine. women can be muscly and wear dresses. and that strength that’s “all so masculine and man like (/sarc)” doesn’t take anything away from their womanhood/femininity.

#yes yes ik that wearing dresses and having longer hair isn’t explicitly and only feminine and isn’t the only or exclusively a signifier of #womanhood or femininity #but it has been seen that way for YEARS and still is by A LOT of ppl #psa there is nothing wrong with masculine muscly women it’s just nice to see feminine ones too especially as luisa isn’t sexualised #anw luisa is a great character #muscly women are pretty too #women with muscles are fricking amazing #encanto #disney #disney encanto #luisa #luisa madrigal #luisa madrigal is great #maribel madrigal #dolores madrigal #bruno madrigal #pedro madrigal #felix madrigal #julieta madrigal #abuela madrigal #madrigal triplets #antonio madrigal #agustin madrigal

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