Snyder ,'Showtime'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Don't get me wrong; I think that pretty much all of the fairy tales presented -- Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Goddamn Mermaid Who Gives Up Her Voice For A Dude -- are horrible stories that instill patriarchal values into little girls before they have the ability to reason and see that they're bullshit. Feh.
See, and I think that's why The Disney LM makes me spit fire! Because, damn it, IT IS SUPPOSED TO END POORLY AND SERVE TO WARN YOU ABOUT THAT STUFF.
I remember Penelope Pitstop coming on after Wacky Races.
Mulan is the only Disney Princess I can tolerate at the moment. I have yet to see The Princess and the Frog, though, so I'm holding off.
Aims, if it helps, one of Liv's classmates, PUSHED ANOTHER GIRL INTO THE POOL during swim class--when the teacher was too far to grab the fallen child. The girl's mother had to fish her out, sputtering and coughing. There was Big Time Fallout. So at least Em didn't try to drown another kid!
I think people who don't like The Little Mermaid should watch Princess Tutu, which takes a similar idea (water creature becomes human to woo a man) and makes it way more interesting and awesome.
Because, damn it, IT IS SUPPOSED TO END POORLY AND SERVE TO WARN YOU ABOUT THAT STUFF.
Yeah, that's why I liked the HCA story - it had a horribly sad ending!
I HATE the Disney version. So I pretend it is another story.
On the Special Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid, Disney put an animated short of The Little Match Girl on to the disc. DH had never read the story and was completely freaked out by it. He asked me, "What kind of Disney Snuff are you buying?" I told him The Little Mermaid was supposed to end in her death, too, but Disney punked out.
I was going to argue that the little mermaid doesn't die but I guess being sea foam isn't really living.
The Little Match Girl always made me so sad, and yet I loved it when my mother read it to me.
I've pretty much avoided most of the Disney stuff since the mid-60s for one reason or another. I did see something that had a still from Snow White with a caption about that being the last time a Disney character was shaped like an actual woman (or girl) as opposed to the extreme hourglass figures they have now.
And ....
It's funny - I hate Pochahantas with the burning of a thousand suns, but don't mind the Princesses.
it's the tiaras - they get Aims every time.