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Disney made Pixar remove a trans character from an upcoming TV series.

They also pulled an episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur which had a trans character.

How many gay characters have there been across mainline Disney films? They shoved some token representation into terrible films that weren’t going to be successful anyway (live action Beauty and the Beast and I guess there’s lesbians in Lightyear? As a gay trans man, I can shut Mulan off halfway through and pretend) Make some shitty movies (because why let a queer sully a good movie?), get some notoriety with the backlash, and then say “movies with queers in them don’t sell! Nothing for it!”

These are the same people were throwing fits about teenage girls talking about periods and boys in Turning Red. Maybe it’s time to stop listening to them.

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JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have a sneaking suspicion Jordan Peterson started the woke Disney accusations with Frozen.

He said it was feminist propaganda because the two main characters didn’t need men and the story didn’t end with a marriage… or something like that? I’m pretty sure that was paraphrased accurately enough.

Clearly whatever seeds he planted there is growing into further conservative paranoia that has people looking for any scrap of evidence that something is “woke.”

What a weird boogeyman to be afraid of.

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- HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  He said it was feminist propaganda because the two main characters didn’t need men and the story didn’t end with a marriage
  
  Just like Alice in Wonderland in 1951, but I suppose the 50s were woke too.
  
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- andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Here’s Mike Pence’s reaction to Mulan, when it came out I could dig up some similar Limbaugh guff. Peterson is not that original or smart.
  
  Just spent a memorable Fathers Day, like so many other all American Hoosier dads, with my kids at the new Disney film entitled, “Mulan”. For those who have not yet been victimized by the McDonald’s induced hysteria over this film, Mulan is a fictional account of a delicate girl of the same name who surreptitiously takes her fathers place in the Chinese army in one of their ancient wars against the Huns. Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulan’s ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis with her cloddish cohorts. Obviously, this is Walt Disney’s attempt to add childhood expectation to the cultural debate over the role of women in the military. I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulan’s story will cause a quiet change in the next generation’s attitude about women in combat and they just might be right. (Just think about how often we think of Bambi every time the subject of deer hunting comes into the mainstream media debate.)
  
  The only problem with this liberal hope is the reality which intrudes on the Disney ideal from the mornings headlines. From the original “Tailhook” scandal involving scores of high ranking navy fighter pilots who molested subordinate women to the latest travesty at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the hard truth of our experiment with gender integration is that is has been an almost complete disaster for the military and for many of the individual women involved. When Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer was appointed to investigate the Aberdeen mess, he shocked the public with the revelation that young, nubile, 18 year old men and women were actually being HOUSED together during basic training. Whatever bone head came up with this idea should be run out of this man’s Army before sundown. Housing, in close quarters, young men and women (in some cases married to non-military personnel) at the height of their physical and sexual potential is the height of stupidity. It is instructive that even in the Disney film, young Ms. Mulan falls in love with her superior officer! Me thinks the politically correct Disney types completely missed the irony of this part of the story. They likely added it because it added realism with which the viewer could identify with the characters. You see, now stay with me on this, many young men find many young women to be attractive sexually. Many young women find many young men to be attractive sexually. Put them together, in close quarters, for long periods of time, and things will get interesting. Just like they eventually did for young Mulan. Moral of story: women in military, bad idea.
  
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  - JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Damn, I totally missed that. Thanks for the info.
    
    Why are so many people like this?
    
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- vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I was deep into the gamergate shit, which luckily I was in highschool and middleschool for so the embarrassment was minimized. But im pretty sure it may have been started by Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) before Peterson popularized it. I remember him bitching about something about Disney being SJW with something.
  
  I cant point towards anything concrete since I am now an adult meaning its been some years and would rather not look at anything that hentai addicted fascist has to say. No shade towards hentai addicts I just doubt most of y’all cradh your router due to having that many tabs of it.
  
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  - JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I have never heard of that Benjamin Carl guy, but your probablyright about that.
    
    I’m sure Peterson wasn’t the first to voice a lot of those opinions, and he was just cleaning up other people’s arguments and making them sound academic and credible.
    
    And try not to be too embarrassed about your gamergate phase. We all have periods of our lives we wish we weren’t so cringe. At least yours is useful and can help folks like me who enjoy thinking about sociology and the spread of ideas and information gain new insights! So thanks for sharing, I appreciate it!
    
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