The villagers gather and sing "with her nose stuck in a book, a puzzle to the rest of us she's beautiful" Belle is seen as abnormal as a whole village because he is doing something intellectual. The villagers call her strange and talk behind her back because she is reading. Gaston, the most handsome man in the country tells her "the whole country talks about it, it's not right for a woman to read, she soon gets ideas, she thinks". Disney sends the message that if a woman reads a book she will get ideas and this to me implies that they don't want women to become more powerful and become equal to men. The critical text Becoming a Princess: The Transition From Individual to Sex Object by Ali Wachutka supports this. In the article Wachutka states that this scene conveys the message "that it is not a woman's role to read and engage in intellectual pursuits." This is explained by saying that Disney claims that this is not a woman's role in society, that her role is to cook and clean, and that if she were to do anything educational or even slightly intellectual, that she is weird and will start to get ideas that