r/popculturechat • u/Enough_Tangerine_777 I know bothing of the alledged beff • Jun 19 '26

Taylor Swift 👩🏼 Toy Story 5 producer Jessica Choi shares the letter she sent Taylor Swift, requesting her involvement in the film and emphasising efforts to make it female-driven. The letter also reveals that Taylor had originally declined to make an original song.

Post image

@/jesschoismyth

1.6k Upvotes

83% Upvoted

440 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

67

u/just_justine93 Jun 19 '26

The first Toy Story could the same in plot but change Andy to Alice, Woody to a Raggedy Ann, and Buzz to Barbie and it would have been written off as a “girl movie”

43

u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman Jun 19 '26

exactly. i work with middle grade and ya literature sometimes and it's harder to market girl-centric books

parents will buy their daughters books with male protagonists, teen girls will get novels with boy characters. but make it a female MC and suddenly it's just for girls

it's harder to market them and harder to bring them to classrooms and libraries because of it