In Gallopin’ Gaucho (1928), Mickey would continue flirting with Minnie until she was lured to dance with him. In this short animation, Minnie will be kidnapped by another guy and taken to a room, cuffed to the wall in handcuffs. The animation contains very sexual elements, which can give the wrong message to children. In other early short animations, Mickey constantly tries to flirt with Minnie, kiss her, make jokes about Minnie’s panties, and Minnie gets kidnapped by villains several times. Compared to the early Mickey Mouse character, the modern mickey is much less sexually aggressive and more “normal” in societal terms. So what caused this change in the famous mouse? According to Griffin, as Mickey Mouse became the biggest star in animation,
