Children's Animated Movies May Promote Bias Through Their Depiction of These Characters, Study Says

“When animators are figuring out what a character is going to look like, they have to decide on every little detail of that character’s appearance, and so it’s not by chance that an animated character happens to have strabismus,” Dr. Michael Puente, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Colorado and study co-author, said in a statement. “That’s something that the animation team made a deliberate decision to do, and I imagine that they have reasons for that decision.”