Disney's princesses spoke more in the 1950s. So much for 'feminist' heroines
Imagine a Disney princess of old: willowy, big blue eyes, blonde hair, handsome prince. Right?
Well, turns out those delicate heroines of yore might have been better off than Disney's modern gals.
In analysing how much the animated women speak in films, researchers have uncovered an unlikely pattern: today's princesses speak far less than the female Disney stars of the 1950s and 60s. And male characters, perhaps less surprisingly, speak far more than women in every film.
Disney classics - Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty - have the heroines uttering between 50 and 70 per cent of dialogue.
Things have got much, much worse since.
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