What exactly is Disney Teaching our Children?, page 6

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reply posted on 31-12-2008 @ 03:54 PM by Anonymous ATS

FIRST OF ALL

LION KING is still to this day considered and voted number best movie in America under Forrest Gump.

And the rumor about the "SEX" message is completely false.
Its SFX which was the special effect team that worked on the movie.

The whole Little Mermaid is completely a HOAX. Anyone notice that people started realizing the cover after ten years it came out. BECAUSE ITS FAKE.

reply posted on 22-8-2009 @ 01:55 AM by zoggz

reply to post by BlackJackal

Disney animated films promotes a lot of ideologies some of which are about gender and racial stereotyping and how this justifies inequalities in the real world.

Both Peter Pan and Pocahontas distorts the native american's culture. And ultimately the story of Pocahontas promotes the idea of colonialism by using feminism to justify its cause: Pocahontas as being trapped in a patriarchal order and john Smith as the symbol for freedom that Pocahontas' society lacks. Furthermore, anthropomorphism of nature and animals are used to endorse colonialism: meetings between Smith and Pocahontas (Coloniser and the Colonised) were encouraged by spirits of nature and natural landscapes. Saying that it is natural for colonialism to happen and also the benevolence and peace of it which is far from the truth. Also, Meeko and Percy's relationship reflects amity between coliner and colinised and again advocates colonialism as part of nature's course.

I consider this the epitome of racism as all the suffering and genocide of the Native Americans have clearly been ignored in favour of a romantic plot line. If you don't want to show kids such violence then don't tell them stories about colonialism because they won't understand the entirety of it. Kids will retain such misconceptions of colonialism unless they are educated properly about it or seek information in their later years.

The other thing about Disney is the gender inequality it promotes. There are countless films which I will not go into detail... Aladdin, Mulan, Hercules, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White

Also, Disney places great emphasis on being the female and male 'norm' that is accepted (at least by Disney) - courageous but within the boundaries of society, striving for personal success, and most importantly you have to be beautiful and have a great body.

This is evident in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. For once, the hero does not get it all which is contrary to many Disney films... Although Quasimodo demonstrated admirable courage, strength and saves the damsel, he doesn't get the girl physically or emotionally. Instead Esmeralda is given to Captain Phoebus because he embodies all qualities: brave, strong AND handsome - the very quality that Quasi lacked.

Disney emphasises social norms with regards to appearances of girls and boys through the reward of status and love for the characters when they comply with certain ideals that are set out by Disney.

These are some of the ideologies which I have learnt in my course of studying media and mass communications in my university. Not all of these ideas are mine, apologies for not attributing them to appropriate academic sources.

A child's mind is fragile and susceptible to many things. One could say that a child does not have such complexities as to realise these things but on some level such information is infecting their young minds in many different ways and in ways which we may or may not understand. Thus, we should be aware and be careful of young generations and their environments. These cartoons, which Disney wants us to view as "harmless" and simply "entertaining", is far from being "harmless as they say". In the end, Disney is a capitalist company bent on reaping profits and does whatever tp serve itself.

“When you take on a Disney animated feature, you know you're going to be affecting entire generations of human minds.”: Disney screenwriter Linda Woolverton.

reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 03:20 PM by Ronnie K.

For the record can I totally have tell you guys something. If we're discussing cartoons and stuff.

I swear, I'm not making this up. Since everybodies mentioning other stuff. Rankin/Bass, no joke. "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" it's either my imagination or...

The scene where Vincent Price's character IronTail. Is standing on the parapet. Overlooking all of April Valley's citizens. I shown it to everyone I could. At point when IronTail's singing. He swings his left arm up. Like the nazi salute.

I hope I'm not going crazy.