An interesting aspect in the movie (spoiler a little) is that the premise of the move from Minnesota to SF is because the dad got a new job. They touch on it a little in the movie that it is startup related (from what I remember - not necessarily a Silicon Valley startup but a new venture of sorts) and he is spending a lot of time on it. To the point where some of the girls memories in the past include all three of them and her newer memories have events with only just mom because dad is working.

Is this a stereotype of sexism or is this more accurate to real life?

Another item in the movie is that both parents were big into ice hockey, which does sort of break the stereotype about women don't do sports because they are fragile or whatever type of BS (after watching women's world cup games I think they play tougher than men's in some way - less extent of the fake-injury crap).

Trailers are meant to tease people into wanting to see the movie. If you reviewed trailers for a bunch of movies I'm sure you will see a lot of stereotypes in play. What was it in the Inside Out trailer that set off this remark?

Neither of those examples for me, are sexist. They're accurate examples of what happens in life.

The trailer shows the dad, not listening to his wife, acting dumb, daydreaming about sports, and then clumsily asserting the law with his daughter. I just thought it was lazy and not well done at all.

Maybe I'm being hypersensitive about it. It was a total turn off to bother seeing the movie though.

From the sounds of it though from reviews, it doesn't sound like a movie I'd enjoy though. It sounds like a movie created for adult movie critics rather than for enjoyment.

That part with the dad not listening is a very small part of the movie. My guess is they included it in the trailer to show some funny part that appeals to moms.

This exact scenario does happen in real life so I don't see that as sexist.

I get where you're coming from though. A lot of sitcoms have a theme around big stupid oaf of a man being the plot line.

As I kind of indicated in my first comment... the world is a well and truly sexist place. I kind of think outrage at disney movies is misplaced. How about outrage at governments? or companies?

Wait - so because the world may be sexist, we should show children extremely one dimensional stereotypical mother and father figures in movies? I can't remember the last pixar/disney movie that has been so outright sexist from the outset.

But then I guess these days, it's totally fine as long as you're being sexist against men, and painting them to be idiotic uncaring imbeciles who never listen and can't do anything useful.

I don't think this is a new thing. As I said, Disney are in the business of Princesses.

Cinderella - The prince was an idiot, he couldn't even recognise a woman he danced with all night.

Beauty and the Beast - All the male characters were majorly flawed and weak in some way, whilst Bella was strong, kind, brave, compassionate.

This trend isn't new... nor alarming.

Is your suggestion to NOT show children things you disagree with? What is the desired outcome? Do you think they are some how "damaged" by points of view you don't like?

"princess" movies are substantially less sexist than the trailer for inside out IMHO. I guess it's just a sign of the times.

Frozen was a good movie with powerful female roles which pushed against the stereotypical princess movie. I like it. But the trailer for Inside out is just screaming "Men are dumb idiots who can't be good fathers".

I can see I'm fighting a torrent of koolaid though, so I'll leave it.

Dismissing opposing view points as koolaid is a bit weak. Just accept people don't agree with you. It's okay. We can both be right and wrong here.

I see it as a comedy, not a statement on modern day gender roles. People relate to stereotypes even if they don't live them. Children relate to them, it doesn't matter that it's the dad or the mum, every child has had a moment when their parent doesn't pay attention to them, or over reacted, or they over reacted, so the scene will resonate.

You can still teach your children to recognise stereotypes for what they are. Rather than boycotting exposure to them.