Color The Sky Black.
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Thread Topic: Color The Sky Black.
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^~^ hi.
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The umbrella academy. .o. omfg.
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O.o wait, wasn't snow white the first princess?
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^~^ eh, I think so.
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-.- I really hate the new Google update.
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Kind of ruins the "sister forever " story.
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You no idea. How. Many. AnnaXElsa. Smutty. Fanfics. There are.
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O-O omfg, really? OnO kind of kills the movie.
O.o do you really think they ish gay, doe, mommy ? I don't think so, but heyyyy humans and their thoughts. -
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Beck ended his rant by suggesting he might boycott the Disney empire, including its production of a film about Charles Darwin. (This comes, incidentally, on the heels of Beck announcing that he wants to be the next Walt Disney; so his critique is part moral crusade, part coup.) Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz said the courts decision was the result of a propaganda effort from the mainstream media and from Hollywood.
To which I say: Disney, give them something to really boycott. Make a romantic fairy tale starring gay characters.
Walt Disney Pictures has hardly been a pro-gay propagandist. Its true that the Disney corporation has long supported its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees, and hosted Gay Days at its theme parks. But when it comes to its most influential products, Disney merely perpetuates the heteronormative status quo.
Consider the plots of Disneys most popular animated films. Theres the movie about the princess who seeks a prince to wed to make her life complete. And the other movie about the princess who seeks a prince to wed to make her life complete. And another one about a princess who seeks a prince to wed to make her life complete.
Over the years, feminism has found a slight toe-hold in Disney films. As my six-year-old often reports, Disney princesses have learned that they can rescue themselves. In Frozen, Anna saves her sister Elsa. In Brave, Merida resists a having a husband chosen for her by a Viking version of a track and field competition. Though Disney rarely sets its films in modern times, modern norms about gender equality have worked their way in. Gay norms, not so much.
Last year, a report circulated that Disney was going to produce a film called Princes, based on Jeffrey A. Miless children's book, The Princes and the Treasure, about two princes who fall in love. It turned out to be a false rumor, but not before going viral: It was shared on Facebook more than 60,000 times. No doubt many of these shares came from villagers from Glenbeckistan, but many others were probably elated, eager for a Disney film to finally reflect modern America. More than half of Americans today support same-sex marriage, including more than half of self-identified evangelical Millennials. The majority of Americans say they would not be upset if they had a gay son or daughter. And the majority of Americans say that, from a moral standpoint, being gay is OK. Increasingly open-minded audiences across the country have turned shows like Modern Family and Orange Is the New Black into big hits. And those shows have in turn completed the circle, transporting what was once culturally marginal into the mainstream and thus redefining what is considered mainstream in the first place. Thats what culture does. The Supreme Court has the final say on the law in America, but Hollywood has the final say on culture.
And Disney gets the opening line. As the mother of a young daughter, I have a very selfish reason for wanting a gay family in a Disney movieso that my daughter can see her own family reflected back at her and validated within her most hallowed sphere of entertainment. In her first-grade class, my daughter was one of four kids from two-mom households. Yet that didnt stop one boy from telling her she should have a dad. She knows better, but only because weve told her so. But what if that little boy grows up to be gay? The sort of self-loathing that haunts many gay teens, not to mention the increased risk of suicide, stem partly from the earliest cultural signals that gayness is not part of the ideal picture.
I dont know exactly how Glenn Beck would respond to news of a Disney film starring gay characters, but no doubt some conservatives would fret that such a film would turn children gay. To which I have an easy retort: Snow White and The Little Mermaid and 42 trips to Disney World failed to make me straight. What a gay Disney movie would do is make gay kids and kids of gay families feel accepted for who they are, and it would teach other kids to be more accepting.
;; makkkeeee a gay movie so we can show it to our daughter in the near future and not make her feel like a outcast for having two mommies. -
Haiii
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Hhheeewwwwoooo.
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Wassup
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Daddy. ouo
Daughter has had a crappy day. ono
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