Thank you! This is how debates SHOULD go lol. But, yes…there are numerous people in the WDW company who are more on the liberal side these days. The question is, how do you balance progress and conservatism? I think in general people just need to be open minded and understanding that things are changing in general but each side will need to give a little for the time being. At the very least when it comes to Disney’s bottom line.
Well back to Lightyear.....
Nope, Disney should make content for the masses and not worry about alienating one group or another. The US and society as a whole is constantly changing, currently leaning more into being socially progressive, and as such the type of content Disney makes has to change with it to reflect that change.
I can’t and won’t disagree with any of this. 100%.
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That's great, but you can't take a note that says "Lightyear was actually a good movie!" to the deposit window at the Burbank branch of Bank of America. Disney needs to go to the teller's window with cold, hard cash earned as profit from selling its products.
In the past six months Disney stock has crashed at more than double the rate of the declining Dow Jones. And in the past 12 months Disney stock has lost half of its value.
Past Six Months
Dow Jones Average: -15.9%
Disney Share Price: -39.8%
There's a recession already underway, and inflation is soaring for gasoline and groceries. That means middle-class Americans are now cutting back on discretionary income like entertainment and vacations and fripperies from the toy aisle at Target. Those are all Disney's core brands. To weather the gathering economic storm, Disney's flagship divisions like Animation need to start pumping out blockbuster entertainment that American families will happily want to spend their shrinking family budgets on. ASAP.
A company selling a product to the free market can't deposit Tweets from hipsters and positive movie reviews from the LA Times into a bank account. They have to make profit and cash.
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I like it more simple...that Lightyear is just another hit toy...and then down the line he gets a movie like Transformers did in the real world.
Possible, I don't disagree it could have been simpler to understand for the non-fan.
Not to mention that boys also learn what it is so as to demystify it as opposed to the old days of separating the girls from the boys in Middle School so the girls can get 'the talk' leaving boys in the dark.
In high school, I was in a program that allowed juniors and seniors to work at a well-known and established hospital nearby. At the end of the year, we always had a symposium and had to present something based on the department we worked in. I worked in the neonatal department during my senior year. Long story short, it’s symposium day, and the parents of an acquaintance of mine stop by our (my friend also worked in the same department). Within seconds of our presentation, and I believe we briefly opened with something about reproduction, the parents rudely stopped us and told us that our topic was “too much” for them and walked away. And yet they had an entire son and clearly had to participate in that certain activity to create him.
And that same son once asked me in AP history class if I had ever tried to calculate when I was conceived by my parents, because he did, apparently. I wonder if they knew that…
Well, everyone, right?
And the problem as I see it, based on your own experience, is we still have a part of the country that believes it should be left to the parents to discuss these topics at home, but then they never do due to their own lack of comfort with the topics. This is why they should be taught in schools, so at least there is a basic level of understanding. Otherwise its all swept under the rug due to it being "icky" to discuss at home.In high school, I was in a program that allowed juniors and seniors to work at a well-known and established hospital nearby. At the end of the year, we always had a symposium and had to present something based on the department we worked in. I worked in the neonatal department during my senior year. Long story short, it’s symposium day, and the parents of an acquaintance of mine stop by our (my friend also worked in the same department). Within seconds of our presentation, and I believe we briefly opened with something about reproduction, the parents rudely stopped us and told us that our topic was “too much” for them and walked away. And yet they had an entire son and clearly had to participate in that certain activity to create him.
There are definitely a lot of prudish people here, and that’s because certain topics, even the ones that concern natural things that happen to the body, are still taboo, even though I personally believe they shouldn’t be. Kids are going to learn about menstrual cycles at some point, unless the parents are reminiscent of Stephen King’s Margaret White from Carrie. But, like I said, if parents don’t want their children learning about certain topics through media, then they need to monitor said media. Don’t get mad at Disney for including VERY NORMAL topics like buying pads and tampons for menstrual cycles in their content. Or including gay kisses and other LGBTQ+-related content. Or showing interracial couples, and all the other things people get so angry about. It’s ridiculous.
I think even Disney does judging by the latest tv commercial trying to appeal to kids by adding one funny scene.
Yeah, my parents never told my sister about periods until it already happened to her and she freaked out. Because my parents wanted to "shelter" her from the topic, she had a period and had to have a friend explain what was happening to her. So yeah, I think normalizing discussions of periods in children's programming is a GOOD thing. It normalizes it and makes kids feel less awkward when the time comes.
Anyone that can see that outside of the Disney fog. Minons is about to make more money in three days than Lightyear did in its entire release. It just shows that pandemic streaming really hurt Pixar animation.
