It flipped like tossed coin

It's Monday! Day of the Moon! But not the one whovians are thinking about because it's not 1969 or yeah maybe... I forget, HI!

So I'm going to talk about an opinion that has changed over time. The one I think was most significant in change was my opinion about Disney. I used to LIKE the movies occasionally as a child, but then I grew to hate them as I became more exposed to feminist ideas. I wanted to see more girls wearing pants and not ball gowns and strong woman who doesn't want a love interest and keeps not wanting love interest and a character who fights her own battles instead of waiting for prince charming to rescue her from that goddamned tower with a door that looks like it'd topple over if she nudged it.

I thought they were terrible movies and role models full of insidious subtle messages. Belle has an awful case of Stockholm syndrome even though I know her story doesn't belong to Disney and it is still my favorite. At least I recognize the issue in their relationship.

And you know what I still think they are bad role models. I still get peeved when side characters interrupt what could be a moving beautiful and serious scene with cheap comedy. For example, the gargoyles in The Hunchback of Notredame.

But now I recognize them more as fun movies. I love to sing the songs, I get a lot of the cheap comedy is for kids who won't know any better (which is still a horrible excuse for writing the cheap jokes) and there are references that only adults would get to make up for it (Frollo and that scarf).


I wouldn't have my hypothetical kids watch them until they were old enough to not be fully influenced by any gender role stereotype they may interpret from the movies. But I love them, I love watching them and singing with the characters and I would like to cosplay Belle.

I appreciate Disney for what it is when I used to boycott everything related to it. It's like a whole new world now.