Zombie-Crow

Now some of you have seen this blog before, many have not.  I love this blog and was commanded, (by Madam Guillotine herself.  I mean who in any kind of mind messes with what a guillotine orders.  I mean really?  That's what I thought!)

So here you are, again!

It has crossed my mind many times since I was a wee little thing that Disney is not all it claims to be.

I don't mean the hidden sexual and religious references it supposedly makes, no. I'm talking about the morals it instills on our youth, more spacifically, our young daughters.

Once upon a time, I was one of those girls that looked forward to Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Tales in which the knight in shining armor appears to wisk the princess away from the evil, mother/step-mother/witch/what have you.

It teaches many lessons that ruin the future of our women.

1) Women Are Evil
Apparently there are no evil fathers in fairy land. Men can do no harm, are too blind to do harm, or are just too damned stupid.
I may be female and borderline feminist, but even I see a problem with this. Men are not like that. sure there's some pretty dumb ones out there, and there's evil ones, there's every type that you can think of, but only the three innocent ones are portrayed.

2) Women Always Do As They're Told
Hell-freaking-no! I mean when was the last time you were oppressed and did absolutly everything your slave driver said?
Leave religion and slavery out of this one please.
We now live in a time where we see a wrong, we right it. We are told to stand up for what we believe in, to shed the chains that bind us, to use our middle finger!
but no, Disney tells us that if we want our knight in shining armor, we need to be meek, mild, and docile.
Fuck that! I'd rather never marry then marry some Gaston!

3) Our Place Is The House
I don't know about you, but I hate cleaning. Love to cook, but I hate to clean. Snow White took care of seven men in exchange for room and board, honey, let me tell you that is no deal.
Cinderella was a doormat!
Sleeping Beaty was a looker, that's it!
Belle was the only one with any kind of common sense. In fact, Beauty and the Beast was a turning point for Disney tales. Men began to become slightly evil, women began to be able to support themselves, and characters were no longer 1 dimentional, now, they're 2 dinamtional. (But they lost the plot somewhere in there)

4) The Idiots Guide: How To Be Coniving And Manipulative
What's the ting women are famed for?
That's right, being able to stab each other in the back with out the other person realizing it until they're dead and burried.
A question that was brought up at the hair salon was how do women learn these skills? What encourages or instills these unnatural and destructive tallents?
The Answer: Disney and fairy tales.
~ Watch all the plotting that the Evil Step Mother in Cinderella goes through to crush Cinderella.
~ Or how about the planning that the Witch in Sleeping Beauty? She makes up an elabourate plot to keep the kingdom for herself.
~ The Octopus witch from The Little Mermaid. She wanted revenge on Ariel's father. A little extreme, wouldn't you say?
~ What about in Sinbad, the goddess was evil beyond all belief. She went to such lengths just to wrap Sinbad around her finger.

Now it may sound like I'm really sticking in the past for this one, but it's only because these movies are considered classics and will continue to be shown to our ever increasing number of youth.

So the next time you're sitting down in front of a disney movie with a child under the age of 13, just think about what you are indirectly teaching them to do.

You're teaching them to destroy themselves, their individuality, and the people around them.

Damn who knew that was possible to do in an hour and a half!