Ah yes, The Princess And The Frog had its own share of idiocy, from people complaining over Naveen's deliberately ambiguous race to Tiana doing girly things like wanting to be a master chef (she wants to start her own business, le gasp!) or getting married (after she gets the guy to start taking life seriously, yeah).
I think the problem is that if you look at anything hard enough, you can see unfortunate implications or "sexism" or "racism". But really, if you have to look so hard, is it likely that someone would go to so much trouble, just to offend a handful of people on the internet?
Toy Story 3? Sexist? O_o I...erm...I'm not sure which is dumber, that she missed the fact that Barbie's speech was funny because Barbie herself was a genius ditz, that she failed to notice that Barbie was never a traitor at all, or somehow thought that children would view an insult from the film's villain as something to live their life by.
Which is something else I never understood - why is it that when villains or characters that are clearly unsavory say things that are nasty or cruel, people accuse the authors of endorsing that view? If the bad guy says it, isn't it more likely that the authors view the opposite? You don't have the characters written to be hated say stuff you agree with.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:20 pm (UTC)I think the problem is that if you look at anything hard enough, you can see unfortunate implications or "sexism" or "racism". But really, if you have to look so hard, is it likely that someone would go to so much trouble, just to offend a handful of people on the internet?
Toy Story 3? Sexist? O_o I...erm...I'm not sure which is dumber, that she missed the fact that Barbie's speech was funny because Barbie herself was a genius ditz, that she failed to notice that Barbie was never a traitor at all, or somehow thought that children would view an insult from the film's villain as something to live their life by.
Which is something else I never understood - why is it that when villains or characters that are clearly unsavory say things that are nasty or cruel, people accuse the authors of endorsing that view? If the bad guy says it, isn't it more likely that the authors view the opposite? You don't have the characters written to be hated say stuff you agree with.