Evil Disney Movies
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WALSH: 4 Problematic And Offensive Disney Films That No Child Should Ever Be Allowed To Watch
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October 18, 201813.7k viewsTwo Hollywood actresses have come out this week to explain why they will not permit their daughters to watch a number of classic Disney animated films. Kristen Bell correctly pointed out that Snow White is kissed non-consensually by a necrophilic prince who sexually assaults a corpse. Keira Knightly took issue with "Cinderella" and "The Little Mermaid," complaining that both stories reinforce the sexist "damsel in distress" theme.
I applaud both women for protecting their children from this highly-objectionable material. I only fear that our conversation about problematic cartoons has not gone far enough. There are several other Disney films that should be thrown on the ash heap of history alongside the ones mentioned by Bell and Knightly. Indeed, I would argue that it is actual child abuse to let your son or daughter watch any of the following:
1) "Pocahontas"
I cannot for the life of me understand why "Pocahontas" hasn't been banned and all of the people involved in its production sent to prison camps. The film was terribly offensive well before President Trump used it as a racist taunt against Native American Senator Elizabeth Warren. "Pocahontas" features extremely harmful and retrograde Native American stereotypes and a deeply troubling White Savior storyline. The character Pocahontas is not only sexualized and objectified but reduced to an outdated caricature of an Indian woman who sings about the wind and talks to trees. This is not historically accurate, despite what they may teach in schools. Instead of letting your child watch "Pocahontas," why not cut to the chase and just enlist him in the Nazi Party? It will have the same result either way.
2) "Aladdin"
Where to begin? Shall we discuss the Middle Eastern stereotypes, the eroticized female character, or the titular Arabic boy who looks and sounds suspiciously white? My three-year-old son saw "Aladdin" at a friend's house and came home in tears. "It was Euro-colonialist propaganda that utterly trivialized and finally erased the lived experience of actual Arabs," he cried. He was right, but I had to scold him sharply for failing to notice the troubling and blatantly speciesist ways that the film treats its animal characters. And of course this is all to say nothing of the Genie, a person of color who is caged in a lamp and forced to serve Aladdin as a literal slave. Euro-colonialist, indeed.
3) "Pinocchio"
"Pinocchio" is a transphobic river of bigoted filth gushing down a mountain of sexism and racism. My daughter watched "Pinocchio" and I immediately disowned her. The damage was done. There was nothing I could do. Notice how Pinocchio spends the whole film pining to become "a real boy." A more progressive and enlightened movie would send Pinocchio out on a quest to become a polyamorous lesbian or an androgynous genderqueer asexual. Instead, Pinocchio is assigned his gender by his deranged puppet master and he never once questions it or even considers whether the very idea of "real boyhood" might in fact be a primitive philosophical artifact of a backward and binary age. The film skips that question entirely, and yet we are supposed to let our children watch it? I would rather die.
4) "The Lion King"
Set in Africa yet almost all of the characters are voiced by white actors. One of the only black characters in the whole film is Mufasa, and guess what happens to him? He's trampled to death by wildebeests in one of the most racist moments in Hollywood history. Notice that the wildebeests are also black, which is a not-so-subtle reference to the bigoted "black on black crime" motif. I watched "The Lion King" once when I was a child and I felt like I was at a Klan rally in Alabama in the 1930's. Oh, but there is one other prominent black actor in the film. Whoopie Goldberg voices a hyena who acts a servant to Scar, played by a white British actor. My hands shake with rage even as I type these words. The movie should be rated X for xenophobic.
I could continue this list but it is causing me to relive the trauma I experienced when I first saw these movies. Certainly, "Winnie the Pooh" is out because of its harmful portrayal of overweight people and its pseudoscientific insistence that obesity is linked to sugar consumption. "Toy Story" is problematic because the boy only owns gender-typical toys. "Peter Pan" and "Dumbo" and "The Jungle Book" are notoriously racist. "Lady and the Tramp" makes light of sexual assault when the boy dog non-consensually kisses the girl dog as they share a plate of spaghetti. "Bambi" sends a troubling message about animal rights. "The Sword in the Stone" is 90 minutes of toxic masculinity. "Tarzan" features a man who thinks he's a monkey, which is clearly meant to mock and trivialize body dysmorphia.
Perhaps the only acceptable and even halfway progressive Disney movie is "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." The straight white male is a hideous, deformed virgin beast rightly exiled from polite society. This, indeed, is how all white men ought to be portrayed. If only they could all be locked in a bell tower and forgotten. Then perhaps the rest of us could finally live in peace.
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He ran the joke into the ground
Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody! -
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He ran the joke into the ground
Exactly the point, and so have the groups making 'real' noise about these topics.
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"It was Euro-colonialist propaganda"
i stopped there cause i factually am losing it right now, this sht made my day
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isnt it funny tho that conservative critique of racial, gender and lifestyle inclusive disney movies is perfectly acceptable? but the old classics, those are untouchable got it....?
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isnt it funny tho that conservative critique of racial, gender and lifestyle inclusive disney movies is perfectly acceptable? but the old classics, those are untouchable got it....?
isnt it funny tho that conservative critique of racial, gender and lifestyle inclusive disney movies is perfectly acceptable? but the old classics, those are untouchable got it....?
Maybe it happened, I don't remember. Which movies were those?
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isnt it funny tho that conservative critique of racial, gender and lifestyle inclusive disney movies is perfectly acceptable? but the old classics, those are untouchable got it....?
Maybe it happened, I don't remember. Which movies were those?
Maybe it happened, I don't remember. Which movies were those?
there was some raging about beauty and the beast last year cause wasnt the talking candle gay or some sht? i read some of this stuff then tune it out cause if i let all this hypocritical faux rage take up residence too long in my head i have visions of dousing people with gasoline then flicking matches at them.
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isnt it funny tho that conservative critique of racial, gender and lifestyle inclusive disney movies is perfectly acceptable? but the old classics, those are untouchable got it....?
isnt it funny tho that conservative critique of racial, gender and lifestyle inclusive disney movies is perfectly acceptable? but the old classics, those are untouchable got it....?
Untouchable you say?? Another foul anti-italian piece of propaganda.
WSS
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Another outrage oh, and I don't think this one's a parody
WSS
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These fu cking actors are out of the fu cking minds.
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