I seem to recall the ‘silvester the cat’… having some form… and raquel welsh…
doing a ‘sex and the silver screen’ documentary…
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It doesn’t matter if he’s correct, it just matters that the people who vote for these folks can use it as a way to continue to feel victimized and righteous in voting for hatred instead of actual governance.
It’s all an act - he’s teeing up to supplant Trump in 2024 and he’s much more clever and malicious.
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The necktie is a leash and a penis and sometimes both.
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I thought it was a special trick used by Hanna Barbara to make animation earlier.
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So, tell me you’ve never watched a Disney cartoon, without directly saying you’ve never watched a Disney cartoon.
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I remember a scene in Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) in which Frollo takes a deep sniff of Esmeralda’s hair as she passes and is obviously turned on by it. As far as DeathSantis goes, he probably counts these films among the post-injection trash. Though he was born in 1978 I suspect his understanding of “when we were kids”: is the 1950s.
On a related note, comparisons to pre-injection Fleischer cartoons, Private Snafu, and even many Warner Bros. cartoons aren’t entirely fair. Those cartoons were produced for adult audiences and kids seeing them was collateral damage. Disney cleaned up his cartoons in the 30s and 40s and pretty much stayed on the straight and narrow into the 90s.
What’s funny is that during the GOP’s beloved (imaginary) 1950s those adult cartoons were routinely shown to kids on TV. The lunchtime kiddie cartoon block was where I first saw “Red Hot Riding Hood,” “Barnacle Bill the Sailor,” and Betty Boop’s topless hula. The same station showed the worst of the racist wartime cartoons alongside George Pal’s Jasper animations and the most egregious Black stereotypes imaginable. Admittedly, DeSantis likely has no problem with those.
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“When we were young, you could watch cartoons without having to worry!”
“We could just sit back and luxuriate in the covert or overt racism…”
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Ron… If you kindly shut up, then most of us would get back to watching cartoons without “worrying about it.”
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Yeah, he sang a whole song about his desire for her, and how her sinful seduction made him not responsible for his actions.
You’d think that folks like Desantis would be onboard with that message. Maybe he’s just upset that Frollo failed in his attempt to burn her alive for her sins.
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Some folks just have to nitpick;
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It’s been pointed out that Disney relationships in cartoons (and major motion pictures) have always been hetero, from Snow White and Cinderella to Rapunzel and Beauty and the Beast.
DeSantis is basically butthurt that Disney chose to oppose Don’t Say Gay and needed to invent something to slam Disney on. The fact that he chose “selective memory” means he’s basically Trump V1.5… “alternative facts”.
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Freedumb intensifies…
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Those numbers are from end of 2020.
Something tells me DeSantis’s favorite Disney movie is the one where a teenage girl gives up her voice so she can get a pair of legs to open up for a man she just met.
Or the one that is an apologia for kidnapping and domestic abuse because every beast becomes a prince if you love him unconditionally.
Such wholesome values, these ‘classic’ Disney movies.
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Putting aside all the older examples I have yet to see a single example of Disney “injecting sexuality” into cartoons now, at least in the way DeSantis is suggesting. At the very least there’s no more “sexuality” in current cartoons than in previous eras and may even be less depending on where you look in our extremely rich media landscape.
Instead of letting DeSantis frame the terms of the debate let’s consider what he’s really saying: any mention of LGBT rights, or even people, and all he can think about is sex. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but he seems to think there’s everything wrong with that, and he’s blaming others for his own discomfort.
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Somebody must’ve told him that Luz has a girlfriend in The Owl House. (And they’re happily dating and have a much healthier and more realistic relationship than most I’ve seen on TV today, cartoon or otherwise…)
Nobody tell him that the show is set in thinly-veiled Actual Hell, replete with demons, witches, and boiling acid rain. The moral panic would be just too much.
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