I attended this film with my granddaughter and was incredibly disappointed at its vision--and horrified that Seinfeld's ideas would affect my innocent, intelligent, egalitarian-minded granddaughter's thinking. Since when are honey worker bees male--and militant? Since when has the nuclear family existed in bee "culture"? A coming-of-age story about female bees would have made sense. Seinfeld has blatantly disregarded facts of nature, and has missed an opportunity to appreciate female insect "culture" and knowledge. Male coming-of-age stories are still the ones our culture thinks it wants to hear, even, apparently, if these are perversions of natural truth. Children's thinking, already influenced by a culture and world that definitely does not appreciate human women (and things "female") anywhere near as much as it privileges human men (and things "male"), will be further indoctrinated into patriarchal, nuclear family, militarist thinking by this new sort of Disneyfication of nature. Seinfeld's indifference in his rendering of bee life has missed the mark in so many ways.
