You could still see the change happening then though. Looking at your two examples, consider how the female characters still did most of the saving and action sequences themselves. The male characters were allowed to have one or two scenes where they actually acted like heroes, but even in Tangled and Frozen the male heroes were not allowed to actually outright save the day. They were there to sort of help the female characters along in them saving the day. Still friendly and cordial yes, but the "Don't need no Man" attitude was already starting to fester.
Don't forget Frozen needing to turn its male antagonist into a retard who became comically evil and admitted to all his plans minutes before they couldn't be stopped, after years of being a perfect mask-on schemer.
Because they wrote themselves into a corner where their female antagonist was poor girl who just killed infinite people in an endless winter because she was sad and a victim of.....her parents being a little paranoid. Since we all know women dindu nuffin wrong ever if they are victims, and are in fact feminist heroes. they had to full 180 a male character to be the evil one.
I think Tangled deserves more credit than it gets. Flynn being willing to die to save Rapunzel is peak heroism. Her saving him in return doesn't lessen that sacrifice, it just resonates the "Love is saving each other" concept that's sorely lacking in our modern, anti-trust world.
You could still see the change happening then though. Looking at your two examples, consider how the female characters still did most of the saving and action sequences themselves. The male characters were allowed to have one or two scenes where they actually acted like heroes, but even in Tangled and Frozen the male heroes were not allowed to actually outright save the day. They were there to sort of help the female characters along in them saving the day. Still friendly and cordial yes, but the "Don't need no Man" attitude was already starting to fester.
Don't forget Frozen needing to turn its male antagonist into a retard who became comically evil and admitted to all his plans minutes before they couldn't be stopped, after years of being a perfect mask-on schemer.
Because they wrote themselves into a corner where their female antagonist was poor girl who just killed infinite people in an endless winter because she was sad and a victim of.....her parents being a little paranoid. Since we all know women dindu nuffin wrong ever if they are victims, and are in fact feminist heroes. they had to full 180 a male character to be the evil one.
And then in Frozen II they flooded the kingdom with browns, + White People Bad, Brown People Good, narrative.
Yep, Frozen was the feminist darling of its day. The plot was a fairly obvious subversion of classic Disney fairy tales a la Sleeping Beauty.
Still don't have a problem with Frozen in isolation, just the motives behind it.
They cold-shouldered the hero in the end. She instead started hugging her sister.
Yeah that was pure feminism. They'd rather imply incest than show a heterosexual relationship forming in a happy ending.
I think Tangled deserves more credit than it gets. Flynn being willing to die to save Rapunzel is peak heroism. Her saving him in return doesn't lessen that sacrifice, it just resonates the "Love is saving each other" concept that's sorely lacking in our modern, anti-trust world.