Disney had better put a disabled princess in their next movie!

[Anonymous]

http://autismsd.com/tag/does-nonny-from-bubble-guppies-have-aspergers/

Lots of people think that Nonny has Aspergers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a GLTB relationships?

I also want an old princess - because otherwise it is age discrimination.

Long overdue!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Incredibles are GT but not allowed to show it because others might feel bad about their plain-ol selves.

Rapunzel is GT in art.

Ariel is temporarily mute.

And without legs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Incredibles are GT but not allowed to show it because others might feel bad about their plain-ol selves.

Rapunzel is GT in art.

Ariel is temporarily mute.

And without legs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They better create a late-40's princess with a dumpy body who smokes and drinks too much and has anxiety issues. If they don't, I'm suing.

Isn't that Ursula?

[Anonymous]

After all this time, I would expect Disney to respond appropriately.

But no. Not yet. Ever?

Well Disney . . . ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because Disney princesses so reflect reality.

I'd be happier if they'd stop killing of the moms.

THIS. Why do they do this?!

I know a guy who's pretty high up in Disney. They do it for what they call "real estate." There are only so many minutes in a movie, and if there's another parent, then they have to develop that relationship, wasting precious minutes. The need to streamline it.

Also, in lots of kid's movies/books etc the parents aren't around (orphans, etc). It's because the kids wouldn't be able to get into so much trouble if they were being supervised. And if they did get into all that trouble, people would be screaming about Disney's horrible parents as role models.

I realize this thread is old, but bull. Why is it always the good and kind mother killed off, only to be replaced with a complete harridan of a stepmother?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because Disney princesses so reflect reality.

I'd be happier if they'd stop killing of the moms.

THIS. Why do they do this?!

I know a guy who's pretty high up in Disney. They do it for what they call "real estate." There are only so many minutes in a movie, and if there's another parent, then they have to develop that relationship, wasting precious minutes. The need to streamline it.

Also, in lots of kid's movies/books etc the parents aren't around (orphans, etc). It's because the kids wouldn't be able to get into so much trouble if they were being supervised. And if they did get into all that trouble, people would be screaming about Disney's horrible parents as role models.

I realize this thread is old, but bull. Why is it always the good and kind mother killed off, only to be replaced with a complete harridan of a stepmother?

Because that's how fairy tales are--at least since the 1800s. The original versions of many tales had evil mothers trying to get rid of their children, but when people started sanitizing them in the 19th century, the mothers became stepmothers. (Think: Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Snow White, and many more.) Rapunzel's story was always about a witch stealing her from her parents; the Littke Mermaid's mother isn't mentioned at all in her story AFAIR, though she does have a much more developed relationship with her sisters.

Both Simba and Merida have mothers, FWIW. And Disney wrote Aladdin's mother in for the Broadway show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They better create a late-40's princess with a dumpy body who smokes and drinks too much and has anxiety issues. If they don't, I'm suing.

Isn't that Ursula?

Best Disney character ever. I love her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because Disney princesses so reflect reality.

I'd be happier if they'd stop killing of the moms.

THIS. Why do they do this?!

I know a guy who's pretty high up in Disney. They do it for what they call "real estate." There are only so many minutes in a movie, and if there's another parent, then they have to develop that relationship, wasting precious minutes. The need to streamline it.

Also, in lots of kid's movies/books etc the parents aren't around (orphans, etc). It's because the kids wouldn't be able to get into so much trouble if they were being supervised. And if they did get into all that trouble, people would be screaming about Disney's horrible parents as role models.

I realize this thread is old, but bull. Why is it always the good and kind mother killed off, only to be replaced with a complete harridan of a stepmother?

Because that's how fairy tales are--at least since the 1800s. The original versions of many tales had evil mothers trying to get rid of their children, but when people started sanitizing them in the 19th century, the mothers became stepmothers. (Think: Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Snow White, and many more.) Rapunzel's story was always about a witch stealing her from her parents; the Little Mermaid's mother isn't mentioned at all in her story AFAIR, though she does have a much more developed relationship with her sisters.

Both Simba and Merida have mothers, FWIW. And Disney wrote Aladdin's mother in for the Broadway show.

The father is a widower in the original Hans Christian Andersen story, and the grandmother figures prominently:
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with this article is that the author is pinning the blame on the wrong thing. Her own NT daughter is the one who said her sister with DS can't be a princess. Disney didn't. Her response should have been to correct the older child. And as many have pointed out, Disney characters tend to come with many attributes that humans do not.

Yup.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

How about just a disabled character, or a curb cut?

Here's a review of Disney's latest.


http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/2016/03/open-letter-zootopia.html