As a former fat guy myself, I decided not to go there.
But if you dress up as any of the characters then you’re guilty of cultural appropriation. In fairness the movie was pretty good and not exactly the worst at the bumbling male thing. That’s covered by a host of sitcoms, which was a funny schtick until it became something more than self-effacing.
The Fox and the Hound was about backwoods rednecks. And maybe integration?
Jungle Book was about some kid in India.
Aladdin featured a bunch of Mooslims.
Epcot Center. Its a Small World.
Disney has always been down for diversity.
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I agree, hence the quotes around “diversity”. It is an agenda now. Even my wife complained about the “diversity” being jammed down our throats in the new beauty and the beast. The story is an archetypal masterpiece. It’s now been overlaid with a social-agenda that clouds the real meaning of the story.
Are you actually saying that you believe that dressing up as a character from a movie, that you like, is “cultural appropriation?”
Just trying to clarify…
And re the bumbling male in Frozen, there have definitely been much worse portrayals. Kristoff is introduced as a badass… Then he becomes an afterthought; a man who isn’t up to the task. I am a family guy, but I don’t know what moral is ensconced in Frozen that I will be able to point back to (other than stick by your family) when my kids are in thier 20’s, and say: “see, that’s what works in life.” It’s entertainment, wrapped around a core-theme of “women are strong and don’t need men,” as best as I can decipher it.
Were you not also a “former kid?”
That was sarcasm. Fortunately my kids’ school lets the kids dress up as pirates, Indians, gypsies, ninjas, rappers, and a myriad of other costumes that seem to elicit such idiocy in other parts of the country.
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I actually prefer diversity if it’s among a group of people who can calm the hell down about it and simply enjoy or learn from each other (expat communities are a good example). It’s the morally superior types dictating what everyone else can and cannot do that bother the hell out of me. Reminds me too much of church as a kid. I guess we simply replaced one form of overbearing prudish provincialism with another.
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I don’t remember–too long ago.
Sorry for not recognizing the sarcasm… You never can be too sure these days 
Agreed that it all feels like church, just from the “opposite end” of the political spectrum. Leftists are just as bad as evangelicals… They just believe in different fairy-tales 
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It has the exact same story as the 1991 cartoon. I thought it was pretty good.
Confession:
If bitcoin goes to 1 million, I’m self-financing another remake with Anna Kendrick as Belle.
Does bukakke count as cultural appropriation?
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I mean, exceptions can always be made…
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can I be in it?
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personally I’m not particularly racist, so I don’t really notice things like cultural diversity in Disney movies.
99% of the people I dislike are white, Scottish people, so I guess on some level I have a bit of a problem with those guys.
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I constantly point out to my kid how the parents did the absolute WORST thing possible regarding Elsa’s “gift”. I feel like that’s a pretty big lesson from the movie.
“Our child has some sort of malady. Quick; lock her up like a diseased freak and completely isolate her from society! That will solve ALL of our problems”.
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Disney made this movie to push their agenda on dudes just like YOU.
Seriously, are you guys exaggerating about these cartoons and political agendas? I’ve not watched a single one since the original Beauty and the Beast. I mean, Aristocats was a cleverly veiled communist propaganda vehicle but that was a long time ago.
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Me? I’m lost now.
All I know about Brave is that my daughter thinks that movie is “weird”. She couldn’t get through the first 20 minutes.
Don’t forget: Leave her and her sister to their own devices while they gallivant-off, in a STORM, on an obviously un-seaworthy vessel.
I think you people are looking waaaay too deep into fucking Disney movies
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