so I already made this post about how I loved that nibbles in zootopia 2 wasn't made to look overly feminized even tho she is a girl character which is Amazing.
but I LOVE that goat (2026) takes it a step farther by having virtually NO female characters who are designed overly feminine.
Louise, Will's mom, looks like him and none of her features have been softened to be more delicate. Neither are Carol's, the llama diner owner. They both look like Ungulates.
Flo loves having her hooves done and always dresses fancy, but she also isn't animated to be overly pretty or humanized. She looks like a warthog in a pantsuit, as she should.
Olivia has big eyes and long lashes but that is because she is an ostrich and they all have that. She dyes her feathers pink and likes feminine things but she also is a powerful athlete. (I also headcanon her as a trans woman because she has the male ostrich feather colorings.)
Adi and Ari, the rhino twin girls, have big eyes and love girly stuff like glitter and makeup, but they also are literally 5 years old. And they love causing destruction and chaos.
Hannah the aardwolf is a wlw who dresses like a frat boy gamer and honestly she has cured me of all the Trauma i have gotten over the years from overly feminized anthro animals.
Jett is athletic and strong and only looks feminine when she wears a dress to the big premiere and even then she looks more elegant than girly.
I also love that her age and years of pushing herself are catching up to her and this is a conversation about an athlete no longing being able to play, not a woman no longer being young and sexy.
(Plus her reading glasses are adorable and soooo accurate for looking at tiny phone screens lol.)
Also. The fact that she is the star player and everyone's favorite, including Will, is a testament to a woman being treated like an athlete and never a sex symbol.
The real sex symbol of this movie canonically is Modo, who is bi and attracts fans of all the genders.
And the character who is most concerned about their appearance isn't even a woman at all! Its Mane, a super masculine character!
This movie has singlehandedly proven that anthro animals can be designed without human elements and that female characters do not have to look feminine to be taken seriously.
Goat (2026) really is the GOAT of animated animal movies and I hope we get more like it in the future. <3
