Who did this? Please point out a specific post for your claim.
Hey another movie we agree on… Guardians made my top 10 of the year in ‘23 and between theaters, renting, renting, snd streaming…I end up watching just about everything
Nah, she comes off as smug and pompous. I've seen her in interviews not edited. You're like the white knight of anyone Disney related, you have to come to everyons rescue.
Exactly, everyone is influenced by what they hear and see. But this whole not so secret hate network stuff is crazy. Especially because they're defending movies that just weren't good. And still, no one can point to a film that didn't deserve the box office it received.
Hah. That's me, a perpetual white knight for Tiana's Bayou Adventure, everything EPCOT has done since the mid-90s... basically anything having to do with the American parks. And I have been for years. Nailed it.
It saddens me that you would write this and that several other forum members would like it. The existence of people like me (like us) is not some dirty secret to be kept from children, a percentage of whom are themselves gay. In a society where gay marriage is legal, there is no reason other than bigotry to treat homosexuality as something that children cannot or should not have any knowledge of.Instead of labeling it "bigotry", I think it's an issue of context and timing for most parents when their kids are pre-teens.
I'm a very mature adult gay man who certainly enjoys watching movies with gays and Lesbians in them, or (even better) with gay campy themes. But when my nephews were 8 and 10 years old I would not have taken them to see Strange World, as that's just too young for me to get involved in that sort of discussion or topic. If the nephews were 14 and 16, then sure, I'd take them to Strange World if they wanted to see it. But 10 or younger? Nope.
I'd imagine my younger sister, who was very supportive of my coming out experience decades ago and my only family ally for years, would feel the same way about taking her young sons to see Strange World.
It seems that Disney pushed the envelope too much for a family cartoon with Strange World. What sounds like a great movie idea to a bunch of childless gay men at brunch in Silver Lake, is likely not going to sound that great to middle class parents of young children in Savannah. Disney should stick to making their family cartoons for the parents budgeting their entertainment dollars in Savannah, instead of the gays having a second round of Mimosas in Silver Lake.
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He absolutely didn’t catch us off guard. We’ve been down this road many times before. It doesn’t make his statements any less saddening.
My post had nothing to do with the choices of individual parents or with attitudes in other cultures (I’m of Middle Eastern heritage myself, so that’s a topic I’m familiar with). I was clear in framing my comments in relation to the kind of society in which you and are lucky enough to live in. And in such a society—which claims to have afforded gay people the same rights and recognition as straight people—it is absolutely nonsensical to treat the existence of homosexuality as a taboo topic.Having had a hand in raising two nephews as the "Cool Uncle", I mostly disagree. It's not something that should be hidden or kept from children entirely, but it's something that most folks in the mid 2020's still aren't comfortable with explaining/discussing with their under 10 year old children. Depending on the child, and more importantly the family's culture and values, it's likely best to wait until age 12 or even their early teens.
Obviously, the LGBT fact is something that is far more accepted in some parts of American and Western European society (plus a gaggle of other Southern Hemisphere countries where Great Britain or France or Germany colonized centuries ago and imparted the Western European concept of law and rights). But in Muslim Mid East countries? In Japan, or Indonesia or Communist China? In almost all African countries except parts of South Africa? Obviously not.
Do I agree with those countries and cultures in Asia and Africa and the Middle East? Nope. Do I think they should be forced to show Strange World and other family cartoons with LGBT characters in them as a form of cultural imperialism? Nope. It's not part of their culture. At least not yet. Check back in 10 or 20 years.
I'm gonna just leave it up to the individual parents. They're in charge, not me. I really don't even like kids, to be honest.
This is a separate matter from what you stated earlier as your own opinion on the topic. You weren’t merely commenting on where society at large currently stands on the issue but expressing the view that the inclusion of gay characters in family entertainment is intrinsically inappropriate. That’s what I was responding to and found disheartening.
That still doesn’t tell me what you and others who think like you expect my partner and me to do when living our lives in the public sphere, where any number of children might see us despite the best efforts of their parents to pretend that people like us don’t exist.
Not really. For as long as you’ve been posting about this, you’ve framed it as something intrinsically inappropriate for children, regardless of context. You now seem to be saying something rather different.
