OT: Dumbo (was: Peter and Potter/Disney, maybe not so offtopic)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 4787

At 02:42 PM 10/28/00 -0700, Elizabeth wrote:
>I don't like "Dumbo" or the circus in in general
>because of the way the animals are treated. It's
>horrible, just horrible. I have seen footage from
>training sessions where animal are beaten,
>electrocuted, cut with razors attached to long sticks.
>All for the "entertainment" of us.

But the whole point of Dumbo is that he overcomes the cruelity
he's subjected to.  Obviously there's none of the atrocities you describe
because it would be too upsetting to children, but Disney is hardly
complementary to the circus -- he's *protesting* the attitude that
"Elephants ain't got no feelings...They're made of rubber".



                                                 -- Dave