Whoa. Being a tad over-familiar there i think. I’d get a ruler across the knuckles if I referred to her as anything other than Mistress White.
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Unions? Organizing?? Disney does not make horror flicks, sir! Good day!!
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“Snow White and the Seven Miners of Small Stature” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Except in “Jingo” where there is plenty of racism for Pratchett to make fun of.
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This was my first thought, too, and I had to look up the date on Snow White and the Huntsman.. Let that be the last of it.
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Something tells me you didn’t spend your entire life living with a physiological condition that commonly makes appearances in fairy tales for no other reason than “othering” the characters in question.
“We’re not talking about real people with dwarfism, we’re talking about a fantasy race of people who just happen to share the name and defining physical attributes of people with dwarfism” probably rings a little hollow if you’re one of the people who grew up with the label.
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This is why I skip “Agony” from Into the Woods. Once was enough. 
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“I was raised to be charming, not sincere” was probably my favorite line from the play.
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Oh, yes.
Just FTR, this is and old superstition, and very dangerous to people with this condition in many parts of Africa.
In West Africa, I met people with albinism who were always afraid of being killed. I actually met one who later was killed. Some of his body parts were removed when his corpse was found.
People with albinism are often thought to be evil, and possess magical abilities, especially such as to ensure financial gain or wealth.
ETA: I should have kept scrolling. I’m late to this topic…
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People in the past with achondroplasia were rare enough that you didn’t see entire communities of them. If they were lucky, they might become court freaks, more likely they died very young. It is possible that storytellers imagined seven such individuals forming a community. It is also probable that some heroes of pagan German tales like Alberich the Smith was a genetic dwarf, but we don’t have the evidence.
What we do know from examining skeletons is that miners did have stunted growth due to poor nutrition, much like now children in North Korea are smaller than children in China or South Korea. They also developed hunched backs due to the work that they did, and even in their late teens looked like wizened old men.
I personally think Disney is beating a dead horse here. They should leave this well enough alone.
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Bullshit. You don’t get to decide that for others. If Dinklage says this is an issue, then I believe him. It has a direct impact on HIS life, not mine, not yours. Maybe gain a little empathy, dude.
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Maybe telling a Dwarf (little person) how to feel about the portrayal of Dwarves in media is not the best look? If you want to know how such portrayals affect the folks involved, listening to them is a great first step.
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in much the same way that telling someone who is upset to “calm down!!!”, telling someone who has a particular condition which is irreversible and has a constant impact on their life to not be offended by depictions of their condition which they find offensive is, at best, useless and can itself be offensive.
edited to add-- @anon29537550 jinx!
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In the documentary Playing With Fire Julie Taymor said that Michael J. Anderson thanked her for casting him as Hopfrog in Fool’s Fire, in which he and Mireille Mossé were the only people. The rest of the cast were puppets. Anderson told her it was the first time he’d been cast as a person and not a “special effect”.
I can’t imagine how that felt and I’d really like to see a world where no one has to feel that way.
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Why listen to others, when clearly @Rindan is the only rational man in the room! /s
He is yet another actor who is fantastic who deserves much better roles than he got. He was great in both Twin Peaks and Carnivale. I’ve never seen this film, though.
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Once again:
And people of ‘typical stature’ don’t get to tell anyone who is a Little Person what is or is not offensive to them.
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But if this keeps up, SWM won’t be able to tell anyone how to feel or be! Where would be then? (/s)
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That’s how you get a real bigoted society! /s
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A better read along the same lines is Jacqueline Carey’s The Sundering books.
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