The Poisonous Feminism of Inside Out

This might shock some people to hear that the movie Inside Out has some poisonous elements to it, but it does. This movie was released in 2015 and the sequel Inside Out 2 is being released this week. Unlike most “entertainment” today which has the subtlety of a jackhammer with the poison, this movie is much more subtle. Like TV shows and movies of prior decades, the indoctrination is brief, barely noticeable, but highly effective.

The primary indoctrination is the underlying feminism of the movie and the treatment of the father character in the movie. Most of the movie revolves around the actions of the various anthropomorphic emotions of the character Riley. These emotions are the main characters to the movie, while Riley herself is a secondary character. Her father is also a secondary character is onscreen for only a few minutes throughout the film. It is the treatment of the father that we will focus on.

The Dad character in Inside Out is the stereotypical oafish husband/father character that has become the vast majority of father characters in Hollywood. These husbands and fathers need constant supervision and correction from their wives and children. Fathers are not permitted to be shown as competent, smart, moral and strong characters. They are always presented as weak and incompetent degenerates who can barely tie their shoes by themselves.

Really think for yourself for a few minutes and try to remember the last time you saw a husband/father portrayed on TV or movies as anything other than a Homer Simpson clone. Can you think of any? If you can, it will be very few and very far between. The universal portrayal of husbands and fathers in our media today as boorish imbeciles is intentional. It is intentional and it is indoctrination.

Consider how a young person for two generations now has come of age in America. They have never seen a husband or father shown with any wisdom, competence, strength or determination. Universally they are shown as cartoonish morons that must be protected and coddled by their wives and children. This is communist-level propaganda. And this propaganda effects us even while we don’t realize it. Just as a fish doesn’t realize it is wet, people today in our country simply don’t realize how infected their minds have become.

Now let’s look at this movie. Early in the movie, Riley’s parents are squabbling with each other because of their frustration with the moving truck going to the wrong location. The parents are not fighting but just arguing and venting. But Riley has to come in and “fix” her parents by redirecting them to having fun together. Riley has to keep her parents from going off course. It’s a small thing but this is a common theme in TV shows and movies.

In fairness to the movie, Dad has to go to an emergency work meeting and it shows Mom supporting him and giving him a kiss of affection and appreciation. This is out of the ordinary for Hollywood today, because it is VERY rare when husbands are shown appreciation for providing for their families. Most husbands are treated as butlers who are expected to serve the family and they never lead the family.

This nice portrayal is immediately uncut though. We see a memory of the trip they just took and Dad oafishly forgets to put the car in park and the car rolls backwards and breaks the rear window. Hollywood can’t show husbands and fathers as competent men. They must always be shown as barely functional adolescents.

The next scene where we see Dad is at the dinner table. Of course Dad is portrayed as completely checked-out and uninterested in his family. His emotion characters in his head are watching a ballgame. They aren’t listening to the conversation.

This is where the Mom scolds the Dad. This is constant is media today. Her emotion characters even say the line “He’s making that stupid face again.” This is indoctrination. Fathers are always dumb. Wives are benevolent sages who have to speak to their husbands and treat them like they are children. Mom is clearly the one who is in charge of the family. This is also a universal portrayal of families and homes on TV and in movies. There is no father who is shown as the head of the family. Ever.

Dad at this point feebly attempts to talk to Riley and she gets an attitude with him. They go back and forth in increasing levels of antagonism until she yells at him to shut up. Dad at this point loses his cool and punishes her by sending Riley to her room. Dad’s emotion characters are then shown congratulating each other for doing a good job, and Mom’s emotion characters express total frustration and say “Well that was a disaster.”

This is incredibly typical and complete feminist garbage. The message of the movie here is that punishing your child is a failure of parenting. This especially is an attack on fathers and their natural role in the family. Men are more confrontational and results-oriented by nature. They want to bluntly address a situation and solve it even if it brings conflict. Women are generally more collaborative and wish to resolve disagreements without conflict. Both of these are necessary in families and each has a time and place. But that’s not the message of this movie and media overall today.

This movie is abundantly clear that conflict is wrong and punishing Riley was a bad thing. This feminist indoctrination implicitly shows that fathers giving out punishment is bad. But in reality it is absolutely necessary. We can see from societal outcomes what happens when fathers are either not in the home at all, or they are emasculated and weak. Every measurable statistic for children and their outcomes performs far worse when a strong father is not in the home. Do not fool yourself, this is the ultimate goal of feminism.

So after the movie trashes Dad and mocks him for handing out discipline to Riley, it then shows Mom’s emotion characters fondly reminiscing about a Brazilian helicopter pilot that she must have had a romantic relationship with in the past. This is truly poisonous messaging. Media today is constantly telling every woman that she is a 10 in every aspect of her life and that she deserves and is entitled to only the pinnacle of everything including men. If you want to really understand how bad this messaging is, and how infected your own mind has become, run this same scenario but switch it from the Mom daydreaming about another romantic interest to instead the Dad daydreaming about a girl he used to date and wished he had chosen to marry.

Do you see how upset and revolted you are if the Dad had done that? That’s how indoctrinated you have become. That same behavior from Mom is used as a punchline for jokes. If Dad was doing that behavior, the audience would be revolted at him.

This messaging from media that women should daydream about the “better” man they didn’t get is cancerous. It encourages women to always be on the lookout for a better replacement for their current boyfriend or husband. It is now reached the point where it is endemic to young women under 30. It’s so prevalent now that it has been named with the term “monkey-branching”. This is when women never actually commit to one man, but only hold onto to him until a better option comes along. This mindset is destroying relationships and marriages today.

At the end of the movie, we see the parents in face paint cheering on Riley as she’s about to play a hockey game. Mom’s emotion characters then remark that this face paint idea is his best one yet, and that he really is a good man. This would be a good message, but it’s immediately undercut. One of Mom’s emotions throws away the memory of the Brazilian helicopter pilot, showing that she is finally, after many years of marriage, is finally going to commit to her husband. Except we see one of the other emotions run back and grab the memory of the pilot and remark “just in case”. Yet again, more feminist poison that aims to destroy marriages.

The character of Dad in this movie doesn’t have a lot of screen time. Yet hopefully you can see how in almost every scene he shows up, the movie is undermining, belittling, insulting and emasculating him. It’s not an accident or coincidence. This is intentional.

Dad is an oaf. Dad is dumb. Dad needs supervision and correction. Dad is wrong. Mom only settled for him. Dad is lucky that she even married him. Dad is checked out and doesn’t really love his family. Only Mom cares about their daughter. Mom is in charge. These messages are cancerous. You need to be aware of them.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t watch and enjoy the movie. But you need to have your guard up. Because this type of subtle brainwashing is dangerous. It will creep into your mind and soul and you won’t even notice.