waltdisneyconfessions:

“I have no issue with Tangled, but I hate how popular it has become in my dorm. All the girls with Tangled merchandise think they’re special little artists. The fanbase ruined it for me completely. And it looks like they may ruin Bave for me too.”

So, I originally disliked the movie… I didn’t think it was too terrible, but it definitely wasn’t doing it for me. THEN fandom hailed it as the second coming of The Little Mermaid (and, ironically, they were right for all the wrong reasons) and very quickly it became so that you couldn’t look at any Disney related thing without being inundated with Tangled stuff. It’s still that way today.

Feeling maybe I missed something, I kept going back and re-watching the film until I could see nothing redeemable about it whatsoever. So, in a way the fanbase did kind of ruin the film for me simply because they refused to accept that it wasn’t perfect. Now, I not only think it wasn’t that great… I think it was a dreadful piece of fluffy, insubstantially saccharine crap with not one shred of individuality or memorability, outside of the gorgeous (and yet somewhat cold and soulless) animation.

ninjafallow:

emeraldlatias:

painted-angel-wings:

Wow, thats a real shame. I wouldn’t be surprised if they hate you for it when they grow older from depriving them of such a wonderful movie. 

waltdisneyconfessions:

“‘The Little Mermaid’ is horribly misogynistic and I refuse to let my daughters watch it.”

I’m sorry but, the confession was right on the money.

It is an absolutely horrible movie for little girls when you look at it with an adult perspective. Ariel sells her voice for the chance to throw herself at a man with terrible consequences if she fails. She has no way of speaking to him so any chance at love with this man relies solely on a purely physical level. She doesn’t think about the consequences to her actions or what she’s doing to her family in the process. The original version of this tale has her die unhappily and the prince falls in love with someone else.

It’s exceptionally misogynistic! I had an English teacher who would go on rants about Disney movies, and his basic message about the Little Mermaid was ‘If you’re pretty enough and shut your mouth, a man who cares nothing about you other than your looks will take you away from your family  so you can live out the rest of your miserable life’. And yeah, that’s basically it. 

Pretty much. That’s what I took away from it. Even as a kid, I thought the ending was really sad because she was basically saying a big “fuck y’all, I’m out!” to her entire family and world JUST for a guy she barely knew and a bunch of (incorrect) assumptions she made about the surface world.

In the original version of the story, she paid for her foolishness. The Disney version took away all consequence and in the end removed the true Aesop of the story.  People who love TLM and see it as this perfect film or Ariel as this strong, independent, adventurous ingenue are the same people who think Romeo and Juliet is merely a bittersweet tale of star-crossed romance instead of the bitingly critical treatise on the notion of “love at first sight” and the flippant, reckless fickleness of youth it truly is (alongside the ineptitude and stupidity of adults and tradition and yada yada yada). Ariel is pretty vapid when it comes right down to it. She only fell for Eric because he was pretty and seemed charismatic. She knew diddly about him except she wanted to do him.

But, yeah. Love the soundtrack… love Ariel’s fiery red hair. Ursula is one of the best villains of all time… but I loathe the story. I do.

And I wonder if all the people so quick to say “Censorship is stupid! Let your kid decide!” would be saying the same thing if this were a confession about including LGBTQIA characters in Disney Animated films (or anything, really) or MORE (accurate, respectful) POC representation… Would they be saying the same shit then?

sylviasybil:

ceepolk:

strugglingtobeheard:

baddominicana:

le sigh. bisexuals arent the ones running the world into the ground.

logic, where art thou?

yes because being attracted to the two binary sexes makes you nothing but a narcissist piece of shit and not just someone attracted to people. doing what they wanna do. right.

but you know though it’s good that people get their biphobic nonsense out there. It’s a service to me. I don’t have to waste any time being interested in them, i mean I have shit to do and i’ve been changing my polish colours every three days, I’ll take time management where I can get it

(Bisexual attraction is not restricted to binary genders - it means attraction to genders both similar and dissimilar.)

The worst part of this tweet is seeing the 50+ retweets and 50+ favorites. Thanks y’all, love you too. Not.

I’ve heard of The Weeknd but I have no idea if it was a singular person, a group, or what.

Seeing this, I no longer care to find out.