Fox News Segment: Movies Like ‘Frozen’ Are Emasculating America’s Men

"Fox & Friends" host Steve Doocy and Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Young Nance discuss how Hollywood movies depict men on Feb. 4, 2015.
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“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy suggested Hollywood is “empowering women by turning our men into fools and villains” during an interview with the head of a conservative activist group on Wednesday morning.

Doocy specifically fretted that “Frozen Fever,” the upcoming sequel to Disney’s 2013 animated hit “Frozen,” would “depict men as evil and cold and bumblers.”

His guest, Penny Young Nance of Concerned Women for America, agreed.

“It’s not just Disney,” she said. “Hollywood in general has often sent the message that men are superfluous, that they’re stupid, that they’re in the way, and if they contribute anything to a family, it’s a paycheck.”

Nance suggested that parents of boys should avoid taking their sons to the movies with negative messages about men.

“We want them to know that they’re essential,” she continued. “We want to encourage masculinity and not villainize masculinity.”

“It would be nice for Hollywood to have more male figures in those kinds of movies,” Doocy added.

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  1. Never thought of it, but emasculating Steve Doocy – ensuring he can’t reproduce – sounds like an excellent idea.

  2. I guess this is Steve Doocy’s admission that his masculinity is so tenuous, an animated movie can destroy it entirely.

  3. Poor angry white guys. They are intimidated by a cartoon. Fragile masculinity at best.

  4. Unfortunately he’s already produced at least one mini-Steve. But metaphorically it’s hard to see how he could get more emasculated.

  5. Doocy specifically fretted that “Frozen Fever,” the upcoming sequel to Disney’s 2013 animated hit “Frozen,” would “depict men as evil and cold and bumblers.”

    His guest, Penny Young Nance of Concerned Women for America, agreed.

    Katherine Hepburn says hi from 1938.

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