Disney...? Yeah, Going to Suck More '- _ '-

First: let me start by saying, "Please don't get mad!!" The following is just what I happen to think, since all of my childhood memories seem to have been replaced by teenagers dancing on stripper poles at an award show for more teens and younger kids. And I dread the fact that images such as this will be recalled as childhood memories for my nieces and nephews. Very much dread. 

And that's not saying that Disney didn't ruin fairy tales already. After all, Cinderella was much more violent in the original Brother's Grimm story - complete with self-mutilation. Likewise, so was Beauty and the Beast and Aura Rose. I think that it would be needless for me to say that the brothers are rolling over in their graves whenever Disney came out with one of their stories. But that's kind of besides the point. 

Riddle me this, boys and girls: Did you know that Disney isn't going to make fairy tales for a while? One reason makes sense. The other is totally and completely ridiculous. It kind of makes me a little nauseous and embarrassed of our society. The first reason is that they want to broaden their target audience to include boys, and the fairy tales that they were churning out just wasn't cutting it. There wasn't enough action or something to keep their attention, I guess. I don't know -- to be honest with you, I think that the only Disney movie that ever fully held my attention was Beauty and the Beast. And that was because I could relate heavily with Belle. After all, she was a heavy reader -- a bookworm -- and always had her head in the clouds. And she didn't let any man influence her; nor did she bow to just any handsome face. She loved the "unlovable" and was rewarded kindly for that act. So, it teaches lessons on deeper levels as well. Or at least, I found lessons on a deeper level. 

Wow... tangent.... Anyway, the second reason is because girls in their target audience -- like 3 to 7 or 9 year-olds -- can't "identify" with the princesses in the stories anymore. Instead, they identify more with half naked, whoreish looking, slutty, sticks of women characters. Instead of teaching girls that they should be strong and independent (reference: Belle), Disney will teaching young girls to look, act, and become hookers. Disney is basically training the next generation of prostitutes... or sluts, if you prefer, because prostitutes have some dignity. 

I'm all for them wanting to include boys more in their thinking. Just as girls need to have positive role models that they see everyday in a public setting -- meaning on TV -- and face and overcome situations that they themselves may or mayn't one day face, boys need them as well. Put more strong male characters in that aren't either complete douches or so perfect that they don't seem real. Give the man some flaws. Make him a little temperamental. Make him kind of scared sometimes, because it happens. Make him more realistic. But when it comes to making the girls younger than my middle niece into the next guests on the Maury Show when they do a segment on "Teen Girls Who Dress Too Sexy", I have to hold down the bile that fights to rise at the injustice. 

Disney: you've given me heartburn. You've make my acid reflux return. Gee, thanks. And I was just getting back to chewing mint gum and sucking on mint mints. You suck. Pity that old Walt had to go off and kick the bucket. I'm sure that if he knew people like Miley Cyrus, et al, would become the next Disney superstars and developers would let little girls relate to skimpily dressed jail-bait, Walt Disney would have taken better care of himself. Maybe quit smoking so that he could have a few extra years to make sure that whomever took over postmortem wouldn't turn little girls into masturbatory material. 

My middle nephew, Stephen (falling asleep before school). I pray he will not buy into this disgusting fad.

My middle niece, Autumn. She'll be turning 10. Thankfully, she's missed the phase Disney is going into.

So, to the executives and developers at Disney: You all freaking suck ass. Instead of buying into that information, why don't you do something to try to change the way it's headed? Don't give the girls more barely dressed slutty role models. Give them instead a strong woman - and thus an eternally beautiful woman. Be brave. Stand out. Don't become white noise. Become the show. Become the legend. Remember what Walt would have done if he's anything like the man I've heard of him to be.  And maybe Walt was a whore-mongering bastard just like all of you are now. Ok, then. Become the company that I want you to be. Become the company that millions of billions of parents, teachers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents want you to be. Become the company that my generation and generations before me remember you as. Cover up the prepubescent breasts and too-firm butts, do away with "celebrities" that would dance on a stripper pole, get some girls who have a brain (and some damn writers who have one, too), and make the next generation at least partially ok. After all... I watched your movies as a little girl, and I'm not running around half naked rubbing up on poles and whatnot. None of my friends are, either. (And it's not just your fault, Disney... parents, you have a role in this as well, but that's a completely different can of worms that I'm not touching right now, because someone will probably hate me eternally... not that some of you readers out there in cyberland don't already...)   Instead of giving more Miley, give girls more Belle. And give boys some good ones, too. Because if I have to start criticizing you about your male character leads, we have some serious problems. But let's put a couple more Beasts in there, ne? After all, he always was my favorite prince; always did have a bit of a crush on him. But, unlike most of your other princes, Beast learns. He evolves. He's not a flat character or static in the background. He changes, and it's completely for the better. Just saying.