As a company, they've always been incredibly conservative, so for maybe the last decade or so, they've tried to fix it by creating characters that are an absurd progressive stereotype as a stupid by product of a committee with no connection to what they wanted to stand for, so they didn't lose their reputation as conservatives among progressives, they pissed off conservatives by adapting to the woke agenda and along the way making some absolutely infamous products, yes Star Wars I'm looking at you
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I would put Disney's "progressive" characters as also being portrayed conservatively.
Disney has been making Sidney Poitier like characters because they were doing their toes into making more progressive characters while other media companies have been doing deeper dives for years.
Of course, conservatives & bigots complained because if Disney is willing to do this, then it means near universal acceptance.
Let me guess, you also heard about the Lilo & Stitch live action remake?
What about it? I'm not sure if I heard about what you're referencing
Oh? I guess you just happened to have this shower thought as this stuff started trending then!
Well, I don't care enough about it myself to go look into it beyond what showed up on my FYP on TikTok... But it seems that the live action won't have Pleakley in a dress and wearing a wig. This was a significant thing in the story, where despite being a "man" (alien), the character still chose to and preferred to wear feminine clothing. Well, seemingly, not in the live action.
I don't know though, as I said, I don't care about Lilo & Stitch, but that's what I saw, so I thought that maybe that's why you ended up thinking about woke Disney is or isn't.
I wondered about whether they were still going to have Pleakley cross dress.
I recently watched the original again and was surprised to see he doesn't wear a dress that much in the original, only in one scene. It's the sequels and the series that developed his reputation for cross dressing
Oh, really?! That surprises me... Though, my biggest exposure to Lilo & Stitch was the TV series so, I guess that makes sense.
Dont hate them for the politics. Hate them for throwing lemmings off a cliff into a river.
I've noticed the movie where they did that is the only one in its series (the "True Life Adventure" series) not available on Disney+
They got a few gems in that vault of theirs
The BBC is the same
Everyone wants to present themselves as the underdog and Disney is the biggest media company in the world
And they saturate the media environment, particularly in children's entertainment. If you have a political agenda, you'd be crazy to ignore the channel that is synonymous with child advertisement. The morals and attitudes espoused by Disney characters regularly shape perceptions of their viewers into adulthood.
So the goal of Disney Executives is to keep things bland and superficial and inoffensive as possible, to the point where critics (particularly conspiracy-minded ones) really need to wade into deep water to find anything resembling offensive content. You can watch Pocahontas and never really develop an opinion on colonialism. You can watch Robin Hood and Lion King without shaking your views on Monarchy one way or another. You can enjoy Frozen or Moana without challenging yourself on feminism.
It's all just a beautiful magical carnival of adventures. Empty head put happy story in, slide over perfectly smooth brain, come out as laughter.
Truly, the modern Opiate of the Masses.
They’re popular across the political spectrum so they get caught in a tug of war between the ideologies. Both sides want to claim them. They want to please both sides.
In the end, they’re mostly about money so I have no sympathy for them.
In the end, their attempts to appease both sides pisses off both sides