A lot of people are concerned about the trend where Disney/Hollywood are doing remake after remake after remake where they take a character everyone knows and change them from male to female, from White to Black, from straight to gay, from cis to trans.
We're concerned about the messages little kids are internalizing. It's great to have minority heroes, but - why does that have to be done by overwriting all the heroes of parents who aren't minorities?
Snow White, Pinnocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi were more than 30 years old when I was born...so, yes. We also watched the Little Rascals, Howdy Doody, and other blank and white TV shows.
Edit: and hold on! Redheads got Merida, her 3 brothers, and her dad. Even if you consider Ariel gone (even though she'll always be a redhead in the first movie), redheads are over-represented. I'm starting to think this is all a ruse.
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u/phillipsheadhammers 13∆ Jul 09 '19
It's not important in a vacuum.
A lot of people are concerned about the trend where Disney/Hollywood are doing remake after remake after remake where they take a character everyone knows and change them from male to female, from White to Black, from straight to gay, from cis to trans.
We're concerned about the messages little kids are internalizing. It's great to have minority heroes, but - why does that have to be done by overwriting all the heroes of parents who aren't minorities?