This is funny I was *just* telling my husband about the Frozen controversy and he was like... Really?? But why??? And then I wasn't sure I hadn't hallucinated the whole thing
I don't really get this article. If it's an attempt at satire, it falls very flat. It is not clear who or what it is satirizing. So, let me try to make sense of it.
The "author" is someone, supposedly a "male." Let's say "he" is a "cultural warrior." And he is hyper-concerned about how a "trad" culture is being appropriated by another culture. I'm not even sure that I could say a "non-white" culture. It's a lot like how Native Americans might feel about their culture being appropriated by a non-Native American culture. This person, in his hyper-sensitivity sees, to paraphrase a 50's meme, a communist under every bed. Every thing is interpreted through this lens.
How am I dong? So, I do see something like this resident in our culture on both and all sides of the divides. We have "woke" intrusions found in every kindergarten and white supremacist dog whistles found in every public pronouncement. Hardly any "innovation" or public pronouncement by politicians or any public figure passes unnoticed by the guardians of the Great Divide.
I watched SNL when it first came online. But I've stopped watching it a very long time ago. Maybe I'm just getting old (older?), but I find it juvenile, what we used to do in school yards, teasing the fat kid or the one who has a speech impediment. It's too easy. Satire is a very fine art. If it's going to work, it has to hit everyone between the eyes. Otherwise, all you are doing is mocking, and there's no honor in that.
So, while I think my initial reaction to the article may have been too harsh. I'd still suggest that this is not CHH's forte, and not what she is best at. Just sayin'.
Having read other's responses, I see I am in the smallest of all minorities. I confess that my response is derived from a lifelong distaste for making fun of another person, no matter who they are (and I'm not really sure that any living enfleshed person is being targeted here). Maybe it's because I always imagine that it's me that is being outed.
So, in other words, you did not understand what problem people have with these films, and resort to creating lazy strawmen. As expected.
Worst part is, you give no actual arguments as to why this trend is supposedly not a problem and why people are supposedly overreacting. And no, simply mocking people with legitimate criticism and creating strawmen out of them is not an argument, it’s just high school level bullying. Grow up and make an actual argument.
The best way to read this, is to read it with Gaston’s, from Beauty And The Beast, voice in your head.
“Demanding historical accuracy makes you a Disney villain” is not the sort of insane take I’d find on my bingo card this year, but here we are.
This is funny I was *just* telling my husband about the Frozen controversy and he was like... Really?? But why??? And then I wasn't sure I hadn't hallucinated the whole thing
It’s about as funny as the most recent Marvel films, that is not at all.
Saturday morning satire. Love it!
“Cringe millennial humor, I love it!”
I don't really get this article. If it's an attempt at satire, it falls very flat. It is not clear who or what it is satirizing. So, let me try to make sense of it.
The "author" is someone, supposedly a "male." Let's say "he" is a "cultural warrior." And he is hyper-concerned about how a "trad" culture is being appropriated by another culture. I'm not even sure that I could say a "non-white" culture. It's a lot like how Native Americans might feel about their culture being appropriated by a non-Native American culture. This person, in his hyper-sensitivity sees, to paraphrase a 50's meme, a communist under every bed. Every thing is interpreted through this lens.
How am I dong? So, I do see something like this resident in our culture on both and all sides of the divides. We have "woke" intrusions found in every kindergarten and white supremacist dog whistles found in every public pronouncement. Hardly any "innovation" or public pronouncement by politicians or any public figure passes unnoticed by the guardians of the Great Divide.
I watched SNL when it first came online. But I've stopped watching it a very long time ago. Maybe I'm just getting old (older?), but I find it juvenile, what we used to do in school yards, teasing the fat kid or the one who has a speech impediment. It's too easy. Satire is a very fine art. If it's going to work, it has to hit everyone between the eyes. Otherwise, all you are doing is mocking, and there's no honor in that.
So, while I think my initial reaction to the article may have been too harsh. I'd still suggest that this is not CHH's forte, and not what she is best at. Just sayin'.
Having read other's responses, I see I am in the smallest of all minorities. I confess that my response is derived from a lifelong distaste for making fun of another person, no matter who they are (and I'm not really sure that any living enfleshed person is being targeted here). Maybe it's because I always imagine that it's me that is being outed.
So, in other words, you did not understand what problem people have with these films, and resort to creating lazy strawmen. As expected.
Worst part is, you give no actual arguments as to why this trend is supposedly not a problem and why people are supposedly overreacting. And no, simply mocking people with legitimate criticism and creating strawmen out of them is not an argument, it’s just high school level bullying. Grow up and make an actual argument.
legit I thought this was a guest post. I should have known Cameron Hearst Helmsley was behind it
Hahahah very funny
Not actually.
For anyone who doesn't get what this article is satirizing, here is a prime example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kSimEe6-Yw
Except the video doesn’t contain any of the arguments this article strawmans about, so not the best example.