Hunchback; Disney (was: Aliteracy--various rants...)

[Schlobin at aol.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony Elizabeth Thomas" <ebonyink at h...> 
wrote:
> Rosmerta wrote:
> 
> >Three words for Ebony and Scott and other Disney apologists: The
> >Little Mermaid. A movie so sexist and stupid it makes "Pretty 
Woman"
> >look like "Little Women." The Disney you're remembering fondly (me
> >too!) and the one currently keeping the "happy" in Happy Meals are
> >two different beasts.
> >
> 
> OK, OK... I give!  Yeah, *The Little Mermaid* was silly.  It's not 
one of my 
> favorites.  One of the only modern ones I don't own.  But I wrote a 
short 
> story as a teenager inspired by a song from it ("Part of Your 
World") that 
> won an award, and I loved Sebastian the Singing Crab.
> 
> It's not PC, I know.  I can be shallow at times.  ;-)


Well, we can all be shallow at times. I know I can. But I am 
disgusted by blatant racism and sexism..I don't want it in my home 
nor do I want my kids exposed to it........they of course will see
all the trash of popular culture later, but why now?





> 
> For the record, I never apologized for liking Disney--I told Scott 
not to.  
> We have nothing to be ashamed of!  Disney's as American as apple 
pie and 
> baseball... alas, our neighborhood lots are being plowed over to 
make way 
> for Super Wal-Marts... and the majority of women in my generation 
wouldn't 
> know how to make a crust from scratch if their lives depended upon 
it...
> 
>

But lots of folks are re-learning how to make crust-- it's real easy 
with a little cuisinart (which is cheap).....
We are rediscovering that home cooked food is cheaper, more 
nutritious and tastes ten times better.....

Yup, as American as apple pie, and genocide against native americans, 
and lynching of African Americans, and ....this is not about p.c.
this is about recreating a real culture that we are comfortable 
having our kids learn about!

The history channel and pbs and a bunch of other places has stuff 
that is far more interesting, textured, informative and fun than the 
crap that Disney is producing...

And I will never give up my demands to have heros of both genders be 
nonwhite, 

Susan