IASW Introducing Dolls in Wheelchairs

[_caleb]

This thread has hit a new low on this site for me.

Were you around during the COVID thread?

 

[wdwmagic]

Disney shares more details on the addition of dolls in wheelchairs at 'it's a small world'​

Disney shares more details on the addition of dolls in wheelchairs at 'it's a small world'

"This addition builds on 'it's a small world's longstanding legacy of diverse representation," said Kim Irvine, executive creative director, Walt Disney Imagineering.

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[JohnD]

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article. If you bothered to scroll past the (clearly in jest) header photo and first paragraph, you would find the following:



An aversion to the term "wheelchair-bound" is hardly something new. We were taught not to use it as far back as 2007 when I first did diversity and inclusion training for Disney.

"Disney bound" is good. "Wheelchair bound" is bad. I'm so confused!

 

[LittleBuford]

"Disney bound" is good. "Wheelchair bound" is bad. I'm so confused!

They’re two different words with unrelated etymologies. The first means “ready to go”.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Why do we need handicapped dolls???? its called fantasyland its an idealized world hence a fantasy. In an idealized world nobody would be handicapped

You know, that’s such an asinine comment, you’re just showing your COMPLETE IGNORANCE

 

[Angel Ariel]

They’re two different words with unrelated etymologies. The first means “ready to go”.

Or that you’re dressing as a character using regular clothes…

Neither of which is referring to being confined in any way.

 

[BuddyThomas]

Why do we need handicapped dolls???? its called fantasyland its an idealized world hence a fantasy. In an idealized world nobody would be handicapped

Wow.

 

[Santa Raccoon 77]

 

[LittleBuford]

Or that you’re dressing as a character using regular clothes…

Oh, I knew that—my assumption was that this, too, came from the other "bound" (as in, "I'm bound for Disney [and dressed for it!]"), but perhaps I'm wrong!

 

[donaldtoo]

Since it’s such a “small world”, when will Disney introduce the child sweatshop and labor camp dolls…?!

 

[donaldtoo]

Yep, see what ya’ wanna’ see, turn a blind eye, and whistle past the graveyard.

 

[Disney Analyst]

This thread started out so wholesome

 

[Prince-1]

Why do we need handicapped dolls???? its called fantasyland its an idealized world hence a fantasy. In an idealized world nobody would be handicapped

Awww, look who wants some attention.

 

[Prince-1]

Since it’s such a “small world”, when will Disney introduce the child sweatshop and labor camp dolls…?!

Another post that proves comedy is harder than it looks.

 

[Incomudro]

Were you around during the COVID thread?

Maybe they should put surgical masks on the faces of some of the dolls.

 

[Incomudro]

Wow.

Neo's correct.
If people are going to pat themselves on the back about how great showing a single disability is, where are the rest of the disabilities?

 

[BuddyThomas]

Neo's correct.
If people are going to pat themselves on the back about how great showing a single disability is, where are the rest of the disabilities?

Seriously????

 

[Andrew C]

Since it’s such a “small world”, when will Disney introduce the child sweatshop and labor camp dolls…?!

Idea for Epcot maybe.

 

[donaldtoo]

Another post that proves comedy is harder than it looks.

Except for the fact that there was no comedy intended.

 

[BuddyThomas]

So now, certain members of this board actually have a problem with a doll in a wheelchair?!?!?!?Just when I thought I had seen it all on here, we sink even deeper into the muck.