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Earlier this month, a Disney Pixar employee came forward about the company’s cancellation of “BeFri,” a film that’d been in the works for three years before getting scrapped due to its female friendship-centered themes, employees allege.

It’s natural for a major studio to produce films that appeal to a large demographic, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Disney Pixar has produced plenty of “girl power movies” such as “Mulan” in 1998, “Brave” in 2012, “Frozen” in 2013, “Moana” in 2016 and more recently, “Turning Red” in 2022. This move away from films with feminist themes seems to be a recent phenomenon.

“Disney just didn’t feel like little boys could see themselves in the film enough,” an anonymous employee told The Hollywood Reporter. “Basically, Disney reps were like, ‘We can’t have a girl power........

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