To be completely honest, I never thought too much about Disney until my stint as a kids bookseller. Then it seemed to be everywhere, the childhood version of Scientology, gleefully brainwashing our under-12 set with homogeneous crap pre-packaged for any white slightly talented kid who can be programmed to perform the same song over and over again.
Parents love Disney and its conglomerate because they see it as "safe," meaning primarily, "I can leave my kid in front of the TV with it on and I won't have to explain what sex is to them once." Oh, for fuck's sake! This world is not wholesome. It is precarious and frightening and just because your kid has zombified in front of endless hours of That's So Raven! doesn't mean they have any understanding whatsoever of who people of color in this country are and what their lives are like. And what-oh-what do you do when your Disney teen stars get pregnant? Pray they get married (because of course there is no other option for pregnant teenagers in Disneyverse!). Just because you feel you are providing a safe place for your kids from this big scary world by letting them watch High School Musical countless times doesn't mean you are securing a happier kid. Because most of what Disney does is sell their crap to your kids. That whole channel is about nothing but having a rapt audience of future Disney consumers who watch nothing but commercials for Disney products aimed directly at them. Oh, and..they're hypocrites. Just like everyone else.
I would rather have my 10 year-old watch countless hours of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have those tough discussions that may make us both squirm then have to deprogram my kid from some sugar-coated false utopia that masks rampant consumerist ideals.
That is my rant, and I'm sticking to it.
(oh, and, sorry big brother, I know you're pro-Disney, but this is part of what makes our family so uniquely wonderful, no?)
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5 comments:
first of all let me say this, after reading this blog through a mist of wetness, as my eyes watered with the unspoken JOY and REVERENCE to a fellow hater, then reading it 5 more times, just to behold it's pure, unquestionable, beauty, it's golden holiness that stops my heart...I have this to say
PREACH ON SISTAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to that I add this, now that I have done my share of babysitting for a 20 month old little girl who loves cartoons, I can safely say that there ain't much at ALL out there that isn't complete and total ass gravy when it comes to kiddie entertainment.
I'm not a huge fan of Disney either. Nice to see others out there who find it repugnant on many levels.
I can't say enough how much it warms my heart that the Queen of All Ranting found my rant worthy of such praise.
In my house, it's the Disney channel that will be blocked.
Disney is the DEVIL and is made up of evil LOLCATS. hisssssssssssss
Yeah! You KNOW how I hate Disney .. let's not cover all that again. But that underwear ad? Wow, that made me SOOOO uncomfortable on so many levels ....
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