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Rejection letter from Disney discourages girls from applying for jobs in the animation department. Funny, it doesn’t say anything about women applying, though.

Found this via piratekitten:

damn.

Mary should be lucky she wasn’t Jewish!

KIDDING. (Well, kinda.)

But “seriously,” isn’t it easier to take this kind of bad news since it comes from another “girl”?

OK, SERIOUSLY, check out how ironic the layout of that Disney stationary is—Miss Mary V. Ford is backed up by Snow White. Meanwhile, Mary Chase (sp?) has the witch and her poison apple in her corner.  Of course, the Seven Dwarfs stand idly by, letting the rampant sexism continue—clearly they’re distracted by what they are imagining Snow White to be wearing under that sexy princess outfit.

What’s ironic about this kind of sexism, and any kind of discrimination really, is that it would eventually end due to fact that women can be just as good at animation (or almost anything else) as men.  In fact, even today, companies get away with paying women less than men for the same work, so Disney could have saved a bunch of money—stupid Disney! 

And by the time I started working in animation back in the 90s, there were loads of women around. I even knew some that worked at Disney—they did everything from storyboards, to models, to BGs and colors.  In fact, at one company I worked at, their overseas cell-painting division in the Philippines was staffed with almost all women (at least that’s what the pictures made it look like).  So, if Miss Mary V. Ford had really wanted to get into animation, all she had to do was move to Asia and wait a few years. :(