maidmarians:

rosworms:

powermetalnerd: stayuglystayangry: fawnbro: this is the boy volcano. you can tell it’s a man because the song says so and also it has no tertiary sex characteristics, it just looks like a volcano. it’s a volcano with a human face this is the girl volcano. you know she’s a girl because she literally has a pretty human face and long human hair and a high voice. if they didn’t make sure you knew she was a woman you might have thought these anthropomorphised volcanoes were Gay Pixar’s Umbrella Heteros Short 2: This Time Its Volcanos This post makes me so mad. You’re all ignorant children parroting whatever bullshit comes your way. The volcanoes are based on the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (better known as Iz) and his wife Marlene. They were made specifically to resemble the couple, you fucking walnuts. This is why we can’t have nice things. You take everything beautiful and try to corrupt it with your shitty politics This is Iz and Marlene. He’s not just “that dude with the cover of Over The Rainbow” okay? He’s fucking important. He was a musician, yes, and he was an activist for Hawaiian rights and independence. He used his music to promote awareness of the second class status of Hawaiian natives created by the tourist industry. When he died, the Hawaiian state flag flew at half mast. His coffin (but not his body, he was cremated) lay in state at the state capitol building in Honolulu. Just the third person in Hawaiian history to be given that honor. And the only one who was not a government official. Ten thousand people attended his funeral. He is a big important part of Hawaiian culture and history. So don’t get all social justice warrior about sexuality and gender when this is really about a culture and honoring the memory of people who are important to that culture.

Okay, but even if Lava was inspired by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and his wife (which is all well and good), it still doesn’t null and void OP’s point. Pixar could have paid tribute to Kamakawiwo’ole and his wife without falling back on distinctly gendered and heterosexist animation patterns. They still managed to make the male volcano look like a regular volcano, even though it was inspired by Kamakawiwo’ole - while the female volcano looks very humanized and feminized (just comparing their mouths - the male’s looks like what a talking volcano would have, and when you look at the female’s it’s a human woman’s mouth.)

Animation studios making love stories with genderless objects, and animating them in a way the audience is assured that this love story is between a male and a female (especially in a way that the “female” coded one is extremely feminized, while the male one looks like a neutral object) is a big issue that touches on sexism, homophobia, and cissexism/reinforcing the gender binary, and it needs to be addressed and taken into consideration.

Don’t try to derail people’s valid points by crying “ugh those darn meddling sjws!” just because a reference flew over their heads.

tl;dr: Lava may have been inspired by Kamakawiwo’ole and wife, but that doesn’t change anything.