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As a mom in real life, Amy Schumer has a strong opinion about the way they’re portrayed in kids’ movies. While presumably watching a movie with her 7-year-old son, Gene, Amy pointed out something she’s noticed about animated moms: According to her, they look like “porn stars.”
As it turns out, Amy isn’t the only one who feels this way. She may actually have a point — after all, it’s not like there has been so much commentary about Elastigirl from The Incredibles for no reason.
Amy shared her thoughts on cartoon moms in an Instagram post.
In a post that has since expired from her Instagram Stories that Amy shared on Friday, she posted a photo of a TV screen as the 2017 movie The Son of Bigfoot played. The shot only includes a side profile of the mom from the movie, but even from what she managed to capture, it’s clear that this mom has been doing squats nonstop for years.
“Why do moms in animation have to look like porn stars and the same age as their kids?” she wrote on the image. “Slightly short haircut = mom?”
Fellow entertainers have already agreed with her.
Animation directing duo Karni and Saul reshared Amy’s post on their Instagram account, adding, “Couldn’t agree more. Because men design and direct them. The short answer. Get women in there and it all changes,” said their post.
Karni and Saul addressed the situation again in a post on their shared Instagram feed, calling moms “the worst portrayed annoying and misrepresented characters in animated films.”
In the caption, Karni added, “let’s get women designing directing and animating. To see ourselves !!! to be seen is to feel less alone !!”
Amy has never been too impressed with animated movies, though.
During a 2022 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Amy said she struggles to find a Disney movie she can watch with Gene because of their problematic themes.
“All the women, mostly just the mermaids in Peter Pan, they’re topless and they all speak in a whisper, ‘Oh, Peter! Oh, I’m so wet. I’m a mermaid,'” she said at the time, adding, “I was like, ‘I don’t want my son to see this.’ So we watched Jungle Book … don’t even try with that.”
Even after trying out a newer movie, she still wasn’t impressed. Amy continued, “In Tangled, if she cuts her hair it turns brown! Yeah. That happens in the movie. And then she has short, brown hair and even though she’s hideous, the prince still finds a way to love her. Isn’t that a beautiful message?”
She might be reading a little too much into it, but honestly, moms in animated movies have always gotten the short end of the stick. How often does a mom actually survive in a Disney movie? Almost never — just ask Elsa and Anna.
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