By making Riley almost gender-neutral, it is much easier for boys and girls to relate to her, and it also makes it easier for adult audiences to see Riley as either their son or their daughter or both.īy making Riley a child rather than an adult, Docter is able to appeal to children who are facing similar trials in their life, but, perhaps more importantly, he is able to appeal to adults who are raising children facing similar problems. She is never dressed in “girly” clothes, she wears mostly dark and neutral colors except for a rainbow striped sweater at the beginning of the film, she plays hockey, which is a typically male-dominated sport, and she has a name that could be used for either a male or a female. However, none of the traditional gender roles of a little girl applies to Riley. Inside Out is Pixar’s first film to feature a protagonist who is both a female and a child. Ebrahim goes on to say that many of the children in Pixar films, not only girls, are used in what is called a "demon-child trope.” She cites Sid in Toy Story and Darla in Finding Nemo as examples of the demon-child. According to Ebrahim, “although both Brave and the ‘Mind’ film are to be welcomed for their focus on girls, a review of the little girls who appear- with varying amounts of screen time-in the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo suggests that the boys at Pixar may be just a tad afraid of little girls!” She is claiming that the little girls who have appeared in Pixar films before Brave and Inside Out were minor characters who were not central to the story. Prior to Brave, Pixar was criticized for its lack of female characters, even in minor roles.
Inside Out was Pixar's second film to feature a female protagonist, with the first being Brave in 2012. Riley's five emotions are both male and female.
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