I’m sure at one point we’ve all talked to that one girl who just absolutely loves Disney movies. It sometimes gives off rather childish vibes, but it is often a topic I instigate further when brought up. A women’s favorite Disney movie can tell you a lot about her. Just bear with me here for a second.

When I ask this question to the women who tell me that they love Disney movies, the two most common responses are The Beauty and the Beast, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, with the latter being less common. Whenever I ask them to explain just exactly why they love these movies so much, every single time they fail to explain why they do. They just “do”.

I’m a firm believer that we are able to pick up the themes of these stories subconsciously, which can have a deep impact on us while simultaneously not necessarily being aware consciously what the message being relayed was. Let’s take Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for an example. If you were to ask someone (who likes this movie) why they like it, a typical response would be ,”I like fairy tales with happy endings”, or “it’s a good story that reminds me of my childhood”. If you were to ask them what the story of Snow White means, the usual response is very literal. They take the themes of the story and translate them very literally and often all you’ll get in response is a simple run down of the story. Many are shocked to find out Snow White is suppose to represent virginity, and the seven dwarves represent her own seven sins. Snow White is fighting against her own demons so that she can maintain her purity and land “the one”.

Beauty in the Beast is special to me because it absolutely nails a women’s motif, and it shows a lot of what a women subconsciously wants, despite failing to consciously describe it.

A very quick rundown of the story for those unaware, it’s a story about a princess named “Belle”, who is constantly courtship by a well looking and muscular hunter named Gaston, but the princess instead falls in love with a man who looks like a wild animal living alone in a castle. When they fall madly in love, the beast turns back into a prince and they all live happily ever after yada yada ya.

Many will tell you this story is about how you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, or how you should love someone for who they are and not what they look like etc. and while technically they are right, they fail to really hit the nail on the head. Belle is a representation of femininity. She’s soft, beautiful, loving and caring. She is the projection of the girls watching the film/reading the story. The Beast represents masculinity. Strong, powerful and hairy, like a wild animal. Primitive and raw. Untamable and uncontrollable. Think Iron John, King Kong, or a wild male lion. The other man in the story, Gaston, is a fake representation of masculinity. The “warning” signs they need to look out for. He’s a fraud. A predator looking for his prey. He’s not a “hunter” by accident. Think of Gaston as a man metaphysically killing your inner beast. These are the men that will get passed up. Instead, the women want a man who is masculine. They want that wild fuckin animal. They want the dangerous man, who has the killer instinct, but knows how to control it. A man who is not afraid to get violent when the time calls for it. The wild Lion sitting up top his throne. A dangerous creature that even looking at it behind a locked cage will give them the tingles they desperately search out for.

What they want is to be the one who can tame this inner beast. They want this big, hairy creature to hone in his abilities. And they want to be the soft beauty that this hairy beast falls in love with.

You need to get in touch with your inner beast. Find this masculinity within yourselves and learn to hone in its abilities.