I see what you did there.
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I know sheâs not a princess, and the film never comes up in the Disney Princess discussion, but Iâd like to give a shout-out to âLilo and Stitchâ. Lilo herself is a great character, and her big sister is a single mom (well, mom-standin) Making It Work. If my granddaughters get more inspiration from L&S than from most of the Princess pantheon, Iâll be happy indeed.
(Currently theyâre obsessed with Frozen, and Iâm OK with that⌠but I like Lilo and Stitch better.)
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Quick, name one song from âTangledâ from memory! If you can do it, youâre a rare person.
The catchy musical numbers are kiddie crack.
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Hunh. I tend to reserve that sort of extreme assessment for Dreamworks Animation.
While not a Princess, Lilo of Lilo & Stich deserves some sort of shout-out. Not Latina, however.
Whoops â missed this one before!
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Yeah Blade is a super hero in the Marvel universe.
M.A.N.T.I.S. was on TV.
Talking to Neal Adams, supposedly there are talks of having John Stewart show up in a movie - either Green Lantern or JLA. I really liked his character. Itâs worth tracking down the run of Green Lantern: Mosaic from the mid 90s where John is tasked with keeping peace between a patch work of community of alien cities which were transplanted to Oa.
Iâve heard rumors of a War Machine movie, which I think would be awesome.
But yes, even though comics have slowly moved to more diverse characters, the Hollywood movies are slow to catch up.
ETA - maybe some day the comic I dreamed up will be made into a movie. The character was technically black⌠though he looked white. Basic back story it was a DARPA project, basically like a T-800, only with a human brain in the seat. The body was made for a white veteran who had all his limbs blown off in war, but when a black generalâs son gets wounded and near death in combat, he pulls rank and has his sons brain transplanted into the âFELIXâ unit. So imagine waking up with someone elses face. Eventually I was going to have them recreate the skin and facial features to reflect his past body.
I donât remember a single word or a single note, but the witchâs song about how imprisoning Rapunzel is really a demonstration of her love is about the creepiest thing Iâve ever seen in an animated film aimed at kids (Coraline included).
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Well technically SW was in a coma so I donât think itâs necrophilia but I donât have my fetish dictionary handy. 
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And yet Sondheim fans are worried about Disney making hash out of Into the Woods.
So soon they forgetâŚ
Shootâthis is Disney. If they can make Native Americans copacetic with the white man despite a touch 'o the genocide, then they can handle nearly anything. In fact, I propose that Disney goes full GodwinâLadies and Gentlemen, I give you Eva Brauney, the butch lesbian who conquers the distrust between Hitler and Blondi despite that boring old Bormann! Wheee!
âŚtime to stop drinking coffee today, methinks.
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Somnophilia would be the fetish of being sexually aroused by sleeping people, but itâs not a DSM recognised paraphilia.
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Disney Princesses are basically alpha females almost at the beginning of their reproductive years. This is why they are what hetero men find alluring and what hetero females wish to be like. Itâs basically the female biological counterpart to the alpha male jock â they get their status largely from their physicality. What Iâve found more prevalent in recent years is a practice of females in the same approximate age range as Disney princesses using their physically derived status to emotionally bully lower status males, often in the name of some political or activist agenda. How is this any different from alpha males physically intimidating smaller people in the name of some political agenda? Itâs not one whit different. It is just as dehumanizing to all parties involved, the bully included. If itâs the position of feminism that women arenât to be defined by their biology, then there should be a rejection of any false âmoral superiorityâ based on the force of physicality and biological status. If youâve supported a bully because you happen to think sheâs cool and pretty, then youâre no better than someone who supports a bully because heâs strong and has great abs. It doesnât matter how noble you think their position or cause is. The ends do not justify the means, even if the means involve the prettiest girl in school.
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With movies like those can you BLAME anyone for wanting to forget?
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While not within the official canon of Disney Princesses - this painting is the creation of one G Richard Cassarino - who was an animator on Disneyâs âSleeping Beautyâ as well as the creator of âThe Hideous Sun Demonâ (as seen in the 50âs monster movie âThe Hideous Sun Demonâ). Donât Fool With Mother Nature made in Alaska shortly after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Not sure that itâs rewriting history for Pocahontasâ love interest to be a white guy. She married an English colonist named John Rolfe under some pretty creepy circumstances. Probably very few people nowadays would be willing to call it love, but Iâve never heard of her being linked to anyone else besides Rolfe and John SmithâNative or white.
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Aw, come on, wouldnât you like to hear a Disney Princess singing a song extolling the virtues of human sacrifice; a beautiful ballad called, âHeart and Soulâ or a stomping show tune called, âAorta warn yer!â
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The Tangled songs are actually quite catchy. My kids went through a Tangled phase earlier this year (after they got bored of Frozen), and my wife and I routinely caught each other humming the songs to ourselves for weeks after they gave it up. Theyâre not as catchy as the songs from Frozen, as I havenât watched that in months and could still sing Let it Go or The First Time In Forever from memory, but I also didnât have the Tangled soundtrack playing in my car for months either.
