El Gallo Blanco said:
maroon barchetta said:
Had he said "Hollywood" instead of "Disney", what would your response be?
Something like "Sure, Hollywood leans slightly, maybe moderately left, but you f16'ers are just so extreme right wing (for basically just wanting your children to have a similar country, culture and upbringing to what we were all fortunate enough to experience) that Hollywood and MSNBC just SEEM solidly left leaning".
I kid TCTTS, but you know there's a little accuracy there.
If Disney was out there trying to brainwash your kids into transitioning, or getting gender-affirming surgery or whatever, I would be right there with you. Because that's something that can have
actual, negative, irreversible effects on them.
But an eight-year-old seeing two cartoons of the same sex kiss for two seconds, or seeing a mixed race dwarf or whatever, is simply NOT worth the outrage some of you spend on this crap. To that end, I just find it so incredibly weird how much space this stuff takes up in your heads.
Especially seeing as not a single bit of it will turn your kids gay or have any negative impact on them whatsoever.
You're the ones
turning it into a big deal by endlessly *****ing on the internet or freaking out about having to explain some of this stuff to your kids. When, in reality, the explaining simply doesn't require the amount of drama (and apparent trauma) you're giving it.
If anything, being exposed to some of this stuff, your kids are going to grow up with more empathy for others and not thinking that seeing gay people depicted on screen or whatever is nearly as taboo or as big of a deal as their parents do.
That, and if you have a problem with two, same sex cartoons kissing in front of your kids, you should have the same problem with two, heterosexual cartoons kissing on screen. Anything else is either hypocritical or the mindset of the religious right trying to bend the world to
their morals and
their liking.
Now, has Disney taken some of this stuff too far at times, especially with the lazy "girl power" stuff?
Absolutely.
But more so in ways that I have problems with creatively and thematically - which I've expressed here numerous times - not in any tangible ways that are going to negatively affect our youth. Yes, it sucks that our kids aren't getting their versions of the kinds of movies we grew up with. I totally sympathize with that. I'm just saying, it has FAR less to do with "woke" than it does with the state of the movie business today, in terms of certain financial realities, the Big Tech takeover, streaming, studios being far less willing to gamble on original ideas, etc.
