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empressofthemoonandstars: sarsrebloglog: nothing-rhymes-with-ianto: I think I just died. Yup. Definitely just died. I cracked up. I died. 
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bleachbrulee: crackedouttheories: little-hiding-owl: waltdisneyconfessions: “I think the people hoping for a lesbian princess need to be reminded that Disney movies are aimed at kids. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being gay, but to push the idea at kids before they understand what that means will only confuse them. Also as a parent, I would be pissed at Disney for addressing such controversial topics in a movie intended for children”. Because kids are clearly not smart enough to comprehend two people falling in love. Or self-aware enough to know they want to rescue and marry a princess instead of being rescued by a prince. I mean god, thank goodness Disney doesn’t already have hundreds of movies that address romance. That would just be inappropriate. Sexual harassment/assault in Hunchback of Notre Dame Racism in Hunchback of Notre Dame/Pocahontas/Atlantis/The Little Mermaid/Song of the South (and if anyone is wondering about Mermaid, there is bigotry and racism from merfolk towards humans). Across the board sizism in all movies (no princesses that would not be deemed anorexic. Very few female characters who wouldn’t). Interracial marriage/coupling (and if you don’t think this is still controversial, you’re clearly not Southern). Date rape in Sleeping Beauty. Necrophilia in Snow White. Physical/psychological abuse in Cinderella/Beauty and the Beast. Cultural appropriation and othering in any movie which depicts people of color, such as Mulan, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Hunchback of Notre Dame. Calling characters by racial slurs in children’s movies (gypsy is a racial slur, used in Hunchback of Notre Dame. Indian is considered by some to be a derogatory term and is used in Pocahontas. Kidnapping, emotional abuse and Stockholm syndrome, found in Tangled and Beauty in the Beast. Murder. So many murders. Sexism. So much of it. Villainizing/stupidifying fat people, such as Ursula, Madam Mim, Arthur’s Dad, Le Foe, and Lawrence. Queer coding villains, such as Scar, Rattigan, Ratcliffe, and Ursula and Sher Khan  Clearly, Disney has never shown anything controversial  to kids before. Ever.  And if you’re like “But, even though a lot of those things are controversial now, they are traditional in fairy tales and hearken back to historical values of that time,” then to that I say “Bullshit” for at least three reasons.  A lot of these stories have little or nothing to do with any version of the original fairy tales, except having a name in common. For example, the cultural ideal hasn’t always been thin. That’s a modern value.Marrying for love is a modern value. If this had been the olden days, then Jasmine and Pocahontas would have been shit-out-of-luck and married their pre-destined sweethearts.I guess you could make an argument that the white settlers would call the Native Americans “Indians” and the citizens of Paris would call the Walking People “gypsies,” because hey, historically, they probably called them that and much worse. But you can’t pick when and where you’re going to be historically accurate, because at that point you’re just tailoring it to your best idea of what that story should be, not what that story was LGBTQ people have been around forever. Look it up. There’s a whole history. So if you’re going to go off the traditional bit, then if Disney ever does a Greek tale again, they better include Sappho or all the girl-fucking that Artemis did. And if they ever do anything about the Middle Ages again, through a bone to all of the spiritual marriages that happened between every kind of couple.  There are so many villains that have been queer-coded. So many. See above. But you haven’t mentioned how that freaks you out.So why are gays, and mostly gay men, allowed to be bad guys, but two girls on-screen falling in love in a kid’s movie too much for you?  You know, basically, if you’re saying that a lesbian princess couple would be too controversial for kids, then you’re saying all the rape, murder, pillaging, cultural appropriation, racism, etc that has plagued Disney movies before this is A-OK to show children. Which is really, really interesting.  I think it’s actually much more damaging to show women who only engage in relationships in which they have to be given away, tamed, and/or controlled in racially homogeneous relationships. Just my brief two cents.
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