Been watching Inside Out clips · 9:04pm Jun 10th, 2015
There's one thing that mildly irks me...
Mom's emotions are all female, and Dad's emotions are all male, but Riley's emotions are 3 females and 2 males. What's up with that?
There's one thing that mildly irks me...
Mom's emotions are all female, and Dad's emotions are all male, but Riley's emotions are 3 females and 2 males. What's up with that?
...that's strange. Never realized that.
3137661 I get that they don't want to have only girls, for gender diversity. But still, it doesn't line up.
3137662 Yeah…
3137662 Hmm, I think it's because some emotions like joy, disgust, and sadness can be portrayed as females whereas anger and fear can be portrayed as males.
3137714 But then why aren't the male emotions girls in Riley's mom's head?
3137736 Hmm, I never thought of that.
Because they're adults. They've learned to control their emotions. Riley is an 11 year old girl descending into her teens and her own emotions haven't fully developed to the point where she is in complete control of them. To borrow a quote from a TV Tropes discussion page:
"It's to show she's possibly still figuring her emotions out. Her emotions avatar seem to be in a default or natural state, while her parents' have been adapted to their own likeness (some of them seem to be wearing a wig or fake mustache more than being actually male or female). With time, maybe, she also will have emotions adequated to her own basic template(blonde hair, maybe?)"
3137793 Aha, awesome, plausible theory!
3137796 [youtube=youtube.com/watch?v=9-19kMXEBw8]
You're making the assumption that Riley is a girl. Maybe she was "born with both" and her parents decided to raise her as a girl?
3137848 Interesting! I also considered the emotions were divided up based on how masculine/feminine you are. Riley plays hockey, which is stereotypically masculine, so two of her emotions are masculine because she's a tomboy. (I have girl friends who play hockey, so I don't mean to offend anyone. )
Maybe she was a guy in her previous life, and her emotions haven't fully recovered from their reincarnation?
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Because Riley's emotions are still a bit unstable. Remember in that first clip, when all the parents' emotions were communicating with each other and acting as a team, whereas Riley's emotions couldn't quite do that. Y'now what I mean?
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