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As the title indicates, this is the last installment in my In Defense of Disney Series. All the other essays can be read by clicking on the 'in defense of disney' tag, and I hope everyone has enjoyed reading them!

Character: Jasmine, from Aladdin

Criticism: “This princess must get married to satisfy the requirements of the law. Her reluctance to do so causes her powerful father no end of trouble. She is enslaved by a powerful man and is only saved by the wit of a street rat.”

( Cut for length and TW for enslavement (is that a trigger? I'm not sure, so I'm warning for it) )

Next up: I'm considering a passionate treatise on how much I fucking love The Princess and the Frog, but I'm not really sure I will. Tiana is a beautiful example of a more modern Disney princess/heroine, but I don't have the experience necessary to discuss the race issue in any detail, and it might be doing everyone a disservice to leave it out. On the other hand, I love Tiana, and as the movie makes her race a non-issue, perhaps I could too. I'm torn.

Current Mood: relaxed

This one is short enough that I'm not even going to bother with a cut. I hardly need to go on at length about Belle, both because the criticism of her is so short, and because it’s ridiculously obvious to anyone who’s actually watched Beauty and the Beast that she is a badass.

Character: Belle, from Beauty and the Beast (1992)

Criticism: “Saves a prince’s life. With her only asset, her sexuality.”

Again, did you even watch Beauty and the Beast? The way to save the prince was for him to love someone, and earn her love in return. That means that 1. It was Belle’s love, not her looks, that saved the day, and 2. It had to go both ways; she had to be a strong enough person to love him as the beast in order for the spell to break, and an awesome enough woman for him to love her back. It wasn’t “find a hot chick and love her” it was “find someone, who you can love, who will also love you back, even though you’re both a big hairy beast and kind of an asshole.” Plus, if you’ve ever had any kind of dating life at all, you know how hard it can be to find someone you can stand to be around for more than five minutes at a time, never mind someone you can love for all eternity.

Additionally, Belle does save the beast’s life several times using things other than her sexuality. Once, she hauls his unconscious ass back from the snowy forest, when she could have just ridden home and left him to freeze/bleed to death or be eaten by the wolves. If anything, her being a woman is a disadvantage here (I still don’t know how she heaved his bulk onto that horse, being a country girl who reads in her spare time, not lifts weights, but I imagine a feat of strength akin to women lifting cars off their children. Or, you know, he came to long enough to help her, but the first option is more fun.) Then, during the climactic fight, Belle pulls the Beast towards her after he gets stabbed, preventing him from plummeting to his doom, and then helps him climb back over the railing so she can profess her love and save him again (both from succumbing to his wounds, since apparently the transformation also heals him, and from being a beast forever).

Besides the life saving, Belle is also smart, well read, unafraid of shouting matches with the beast, loves her father, and has a million other excellent traits, including patience, kindness, self-sacrifice, a longing for more than a provincial life, some form of medical knowledge, the ability to take talking objects in stride, and excellent aim with a snowball. How is her sexuality her only asset? She saves the beast because they fall in love, and they fall in love because she’s an awesome person, as well as because she can see past his rough exterior. Her being beautiful is just a perk, really. If Belle had been pretty but stupid, or mean, or shallow, it never would have worked. Her asset, with which she saves Beast, is all of her, and how dare anyone reduce her to just a pretty face?

And of course there’s the magically magical love in general, which not even beastliness, Gaston, or stab wounds to the kidney can thwart.

All the other essays in this series can be accessed via the 'in defense of Disney' tag.

Current Mood: cheerful

Character: Ariel, from The Little Mermaid (1989)

Criticism: “This one drastically changes her physical appearance so as to be more attractive to a man. The price is that she can’t speak. No problem, she has nothing of value to say anyhow. She is saved by a prince.”

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To read the rest of the entries in this series, please click on the 'in defense of disney' tag.

Current Mood: working

Character: Aurora/Briar Rose, from Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Criticism: “Betrothed at birth to solidify a political position, she is killed by another woman out of spite. Her owner… ahem… fiancé saves her with a kiss. Again, sex is her only salvation.”

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To see the two previous entries in this series, please click on the 'in defense of disney' tag.

Current Mood: calm

Character: Cinderella, from Cinderella (1950)

Criticism: “She is saved from terrible living conditions by a prince. He does this, not because she’s such a hard worker, but because she’s beautiful.”

( Trigger Warning: Brief mention (we're talking Disney here) of abuse and rape below the cut )

Current Mood: cold

What follows is the first in a several part essay I've been working on, that defends Disney Princesses. I was originally going to post the whole thing, but it is INCREDIBLY long, so I'm doing it in parts instead. Enjoy!

Also, even though it's mild, trigger warning for discussion of abuse.

( Cut for picture and length )

Current Mood: hungry

People, people of the world and people of Facebook, especially: I am only going to say this once, so sit up and pay attention. You may even want to take notes. Ready?

A super cold day (or week, or month, or even year) in a single place on the whole earth does not disprove global ~~warming~~ climate change. Seriously.

I mean, I know that you're joking. But there are far too many people that still don't believe in climate change, and you're not helping. And if you're not joking, then I sincerely hope that either you go and educate yourself immediately, or that a polar bear eats you.

Current Mood: irritated

Someone, someone who I believe may be certifiably insane, decided that this was a good idea: 10 Things I Hate About You, the TV show

Now, there are more problems with this than I can count, but let's just touch on a few.

1. First and foremost, you are turning movie that starred Heath Ledger into a crappy tween show. It's bad enough that many people can't even watch the original movie anymore, because it's so connected to the tragedy, as 10 TIHAY was many people's first introduction to Heath, but from the look of the trailer I saw today, you kept his character in the show. Heath Ledger's character - Heath Ledger = FAIL.

2. On that note, you can't seem to decide whether or not this show will have the same characters (the same actor is playing the father), or just people who aren't them but might as well be (and even more steriotypical then they were in the movie too). Either way, it doesn't work.

3. 10 Things I Hate About You came out TEN YEARS AGO. Why are you making a tv series out of it now? The fanbase of the movie is now college age or older, and not going to watch your show on ABC Family. The age group you're targeting with this nonsense may have possibly seen the movie on TV, once, when they were 8, maybe. So why bother associating it with the movie at all?

4. You took a movie that contains lines like "Heinous bitch" and "Bikers. Big ones. Full of sperm" and made it squeaky clean for your family network. Though I love 10 TIHAY dearly, it's not the greatest movie ever, and a lot of what makes it not suck is the PG-13 dialogue and content. Lose that, and you lose a lot.

5. Did you forget that 10 TIHAY is based on The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare? And, as far as modern adaptations go, is pretty good. You're going to ditch that parallel, I just know you are, and then what will you have for a plot? There is no sequel to The Taming of the Shrew, and with good reason. Willy was smarter than that.

So, ABC Family, why didn't you just make a new stupid high school show, with new characters and a new premise, and leave 10 Things I Hate About You alone? No one's even going to understand the title if they haven't seen the movie, and anyone who's seen the movie isn't going to watch your crappy show, so you could have saved everyone a lot of pain and suffering by just leaving well enough alone.

Current Mood: annoyed

Ok government, listen to me and hear what I'm saying: lifting the restrictions on off-shore oil drilling IS. NOT. THE. ANSWER.

Looking for new sources of oil in a vain effort to delay the inevitable time when we run out of fossil fuels all together is not the way to spend our time and money. We need to look for alternative energy sources, and that is where the time and money should go.

Not that the outrageous gas prices aren't annoying, but they're the only thing that is going to make America change. We need to suffer monetarilly so that we'll see that the way we're living, and have been living, is unsustainable.

So STOP IT ALREADY.

Current Mood: irritated

You know what really pisses me off? When people don't pull over and stop for firetrucks/police cars/ambulances.

It happened on my way home from the store just now (I got ingredients for s'mores, which ROCK) and It's not ok.

I pulled over to let the firetrucks by, and people actually pulled around me and kept going. I wanted to get out and hit them. Who does that?

Maybe it's just cause my dad and uncle and brother are all firemen, but these people are risking their lives to protect the public, and the least you assholes could do is pull over for a second and let them by. Oh, and did I mention that it's the LAW?

And I don't care how many lanes there are, or how far away the vehicles in question are, you see flashing lights, you pull to the right and stop. That's it, end of story.

Grrrrr.

Current Mood: angry

So, I happened across this infomercial late last night. I started watching it because all it was showing me were pretty girls posing for cameras, and I was like, "Oh-ho, what is this?"

The women on the ad then proceeded to say that this product made them feel confident and empowered, and that it boosted their self esteem.

And do you know what this miracle product was? It was this... thing, that made them have more cleavage. Seriously. That was it.

Now, I realize that we live in a shallow, image-obsessed society, but do you really want to tell me that it's a good thing, a thing we should promote products for, that women derive their self-esteem and confidence from their CLEAVAGE? Not even their overall appearance, no, just their cleavage.

But my real problem with this infomercial is the use of the word "empowered." Somehow, I don't think having more cleavage is one of the goals of women's empowerment.

Honestly, you're telling me that this, THIS is what makes women feel empowered? SERIOUSLY? Cleavage? Not oh, I don't know, intelligence or the right to vote or equal pay for equal work or being allowed to wear pants and own land and divorce men and a million other things women can do today that they couldn't do in the past?

I just don't like women being told that looking hotter will make them more confident and empowered. It won't. It will just make them look hotter.

And if that's your idea of empowerment, well, it's just not good enough for me.

Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Jeopardy!

Dinosaurs: Return To Life?

Dinosaurs: Return to Life follows scientists who are using the latest technology and amazing advances in genetic research to revive the possibility of creating a living breathing dinosaur, but in a different way than we ever imagined.

Did you people not see Jurassic Park? THERE IS A REASON DINOSAURS AND HUMANS NEVER CO-EXISTED. AND IT IS BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE EATEN US.

Also, in the immortal words of Ian Malcolm: Your scientists were too busy wondering whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.

Maybe we should just let the dinosaurs stay dead, yeah?

Current Mood: annoyed

I've decided that I hate it when teachers say, "We'll go into more detail on this later." No. Either you tell me all about it now, with all the full gory details, or you stop talking about it for good. I don't want to have to write about it in more than one section in my notebook. And when you say it about three things in a row, I get really REALLY annoyed. Why can't we have these details now? Why later? ARGH.

Also, it's the mitotic spindle. You told us what it is, where it is, what it does, how it does it, and what it's made out of. How much more detail is there?

Current Music: American Gladiator

1. Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see anything wrong with the word come. There's absolutely no reason to ever use 'cum' in place of it. No, really, there's not. ESPECIALLY if you're not talking about sex. If you write "I'm cumming over" or "cum and get it" I may have to kill you. If you use 'cum' in a sex scene, I'll be a little more forgiving, but it's really not necessary. You can spell it properly and I'll know what you mean. I am an intelligent person. You don't need to write things out phoentically for me to understand.

2. THERE ARE FOUR MARAUDERS. Whether you like it or not, Peter Pettigrew is a Marauder. If you're drawing or writing about the Marauders, especially during their time at Hogwarts, INCLUDE ALL FOUR OF THEM.

Current Mood: angry

Do you know how much genetically modified food you eat? No. You don't. Because there is no law in the United States requiring genetically modified foods to be labelled.

And that should terrify all of you. There's no way to control genetic modifications in plants from spreading. And no one really knows for sure what eating these foods might do to us in generations to come. Research that refutes research done by the big business that are modifing the stuff gets shut down or goes unpublished.

It's hard to explain to a general audience who doesn't know about recombinant DNA that putting genes into food means they're going to end up in people, and I don't have the strength to type it all out. But it's terrifying, and I don't want to be eating anything thats been messed with without knowing that I'm eating it.

We watched this movie about all this today, and all I could think of was the line in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum says "Your scientists were so busy worrying about whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should." And we all know how well genetic engineering worked out in that case. How they could totally totally control everything. NOT.

Current Mood: angry

I'm so angry, I feel like throwing up. I've never felt this incensed before. I don't quite know how to handle it. I can't focus on anything else.

I... I miss Encore. I miss the Encore spirit.

Current Mood: infuriated

Listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once.

THIS

IS NOT A MONKEY.

While we're on the subject, neither is this:

THEY ARE BOTH APES. MONKEYS HAVE TAILS. APES? NO TAILS. (And that's only the beginning of their differences, but for people who use the sentence "Her and me don't get to hang out a lot," we'll stick with the tail thing. Honestly, the lack of proper grammar in the youth of this country is the reason for the downfall of Western civilization. The View From Saturday? Anyone? No? Well, that's a whole other rant anyways.)

Let's review: CHIMPANZEES AND GORILLAS ARE NOT MONKEYS. THEY ARE APES. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BUDDAH, MUHAMMAD, RAMA, THE GODDESS, THE SHIRE, AND LITTLE GREEN APPLES, PLEASE STOP CALLING THEM MONKEYS!!!

Thank you and Goodnight.

Current Mood: Extremely Annoyed
Current Music: Fan

So I have some interesting things to tell you, followed by a very small rant.

First, highlights from rehersal.

Me: What is it women want most?
Aaron: Gerry Cyr!

Then Chris's hat got pulled off and he tried to get the velcro gold to stick to his hair, which it almost did.

And Aaron's eyebrow ring got caught in his hat. That was entertaining.

Seth: I'll not argue with an angry man...(looks at Vaneesa, who is, in fact, a woman)...woman....(looks at rest of cast)...an angry...thing...
Vanessa: Am I a man or a woman?

Vanessa:(Who apparantly likes to make up songs) I get raped raped raped raped...Raped raped raped raped!

I watched Ellen the other day. I do not know why, so please do not ask. But it was quite funny. She had a contest.

Ellen: If they win, they get a prize. And if they don't...Let's not kid ourselves. They get it anyway. (This is how the world should be.)

And now the small rant.

Annie Gormley had her hands full with her science fair poster board, and other science fair paraphenelia, so I held the door open for her. And what did she do? She shifted all her stuff to one hand, and used her other hand to push a different door open, and went out that one. I am not even good enough to be her door man...er...woman. (This is the way the world is, and why the more time I spend with people the more I like my cat.)

Current Mood: angry
Current Music: Full House

First, a thank you. Becky: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCKING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND A DAY, AND EVEN LONGER THAN THAT. THAT CD IS FUCKING AMAZING! THANK YOU! (also, I was listening to it in my car and I was on Music of the Night and I had it turned up really loud, and the next song starts with wicked loud and creepy organ music, which I did not know, and it scared me and I screamed and panicked and couldn't remember how to turn it down. So thank you again!)

Second, a rant: You know, if you walk down the hall, innocently, and someone innocently bumps into you, they usually apologize, especially if they know you, they may even use your name, or at the very least they look ashamed, or mumble something, or smile or giggle or SOMETHING to show that they are sorry. Some really nice innocent people do this even if it is not their fault.

And sometimes someone may innocently scratch you with their binder, or tread on your foot, and not notice, and that is ok because hallways are crowded places.

These two classes of people are nice, normal people who can go hang with Azriphale in Heaven.

Then there are some people who will carelessly and not innocently at all whip their hats around, and smack innocent passersby who are deep in thought and therefore looking at the floor, in the forehead, and then LAUGH ABOUT IT. These people should burn in Hell, not with Crowley, because even he, a minion of Hell, is too good for them.

These people are Zach Smith, the bloody wanker. (Can you all tell I am 1. Pissed, and 2. Have been reading Good Omens today?)

Thirdly, quotes! I am glad you all liked my easy quote, I made it easy on purpose, and I am glad many people commented ad all got it right. Those people will each get a Eunuch point, and they are Bart, Janeea, Alison, Kim, Sarah, and Hannah. Yeah!

Now for the next quote, you get one point if you get it, and 10 points if you can tell me the missing lines to the songs, from the same movie, which I will also post. AND, I will give 5 points to anyone who tells me the actress who is the main character.(This gives you all sort of a chance to catch up to Janeea, who is currently kicking all your butts with 16 points. The closest is Becky with 9 points.) "This isn't the Fairy Vale. It's only a weed patch."

Song 1:
Let me be your wings
Let me be your only love
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Let me be your wings
Let me lift you high above
Everything we're dreaming of
Will soon be ours
Anything that you desire
Anthing at all
Every day I'll take you higher
And I'll never let you fall

Song 2:
Romeo and Juliet
Were very much in love where they were wed
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So where are they now?
They're dead, dead, very very dead!

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: The Paantom Of The Opera!

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Entries tagged with rant

In Defense of Disney: The Final Chapter

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