So, I think this may be the most tasteless thing I've ever done, and considering my single most popular tumblr post suggests Gaston gets together with a 7-year-old girl, that's saying something:
When I mentioned the idea for this mashup to my loyal peanut gallery, Dad said
"If only Disney had explicitly explored the tobacco industry side of the colonization of the Americas."
...and my little sister said
"But instead of AIDS, it's smallpox?"
Wow, I can hardly say how impressed I am with Zootopia! As someone who blogs about feminism and politics in Disney films, rather in spite of myself I've followed Wesley's advice and gotten used to disappointment. It's easy to feel a certain amount of thoughtless traditionalism is simply baked in, and our decades of criticisms about Disney will never quite fix it. Watching Zooptopia, on the other hand, I felt like....
I guess that means Disney's next move will be whatever the social justice equivalent of shouting "COME ON, DOVER! MOVE YOUR BLOOMIN' ARSE!!!" at Ascot is ... I can't wait:
So I watch a lot of Disney movies (you may have noticed...), and you know what I can safely say that absolutely no character has said, ever?
It may be hard for your settlers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about environmentalism back in the 1600s. And because of both Governor Ratclifffe and Wiggins, in particular Wiggins, we started a colonial conversation. When before, nobody would talk about cutting down trees, nobody wanted to do anything digging up earth, and that too is something that I really appreciate with Wiggins' very effective low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscience, and colonists began saying, ‘Hey, we have to do something about this too.'
at least the issue seems to have penetrated Wiggins' conscience, so there's that...
...or...
Tumblr user the-disney-elite shared some adorable Disney "Do Not Disturb" door tags:
Now that's fine as far as it goes, but there are just so many opportunities here!
May I humbly suggest:
