By Kerry TruemanWomen are often relegated to the sidelines in films, playing minor characters”say, the girlfriend, or maybe the mother. That’s why actresses like Jodie Foster and Sandra Bullock have created their own production companies, giving themselves more substantial roles than the male-dominated movie studios seem inclined to offer them.But who’s going to go to bat for Hollywood’s animated females? As New York Times science writer Natalie Angier told Living on Earth’s Steve Curwood last weekend, Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie turns the whole hierarchy of the bee world upside down with its anatomically incorrect male worker bees, who are the film’s main characters.Male bees do not, in fact, possess a stinger, and they don’t do any of the work—the pollinating, the honeymaking”that’s why they’re called “drones.” In real life, of course, the queen bee runs the show, the worker bees are all female, and the males are, as Angier told Curwood, “basically packets of sperm with wings.” So why did Bee Movie choose to break just about every law of bee biology? Maybe because, in the words of A Few Good Men, they can’t handle the truth.