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[cereta]

Hat tip to wabbitseason on shakydismount, Disney retools Rapunzel to appeal to boys. By giving it a male protagonist. Yes, even the princesses can't be for girls anymore

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[movies_michelle]

Because there just aren't enough fairy tales where boys are the heroes? And it wasn't all about the prince coming to rescue her from the tower?

I...oy.

[cereta]

Ironically, there ARE, but Disney...I dunno, can't sell costumes based on them?

I can't even.

[movies_michelle]

I was being facetious with my first question, but I think you're right.

Reading the article just highlighted more fail, too. Because they decided, based on this movie not doing well, that it was the "Princess" in the title which killed the box office on it. On what were they basing that on, since it's pointed out in the article that most of their biggest box office hits were with female protagonists?

[moljn]

I wonder if they did a survey. If not though, why assume it was a matter of gender and not a matter of race? I'm not saying that's the real reason, but it seems to me to be the bigger difference from other animated movies (not counting the non-3D-ness) and thus the more obvious guess.

Of course, racism is a far bigger can of worms than "girly stuff is bad".

[cbpotts]

Assholes. I've got nothing else atm. Just assholes.

[cereta]

I can barely articulate how furious this makes me.

[the_jackalope]

YES. You are not the default because you have a penis. Please stop sidelining females.

Rage is the only viable opinion to this.

[cereta]

I can't even.

[lizkayl]

For a good mom, Emperor's New Groove had a good one.

[delle]

unfortuantely, it's about the only disney film that has a mother. (ENG is disney, yes?)

[cereta]

Yeah, that's a whole...yeah.

[frog4]

What in the goddamn hell? You know, my mother was having to deal with this type of shit when she was raising me - you would think we might have advanced just a teensy bit in the ensuing couple of decades. Clearly not. *headdesk*

We make movies to be appreciated and loved by everybody."
I guess by "everybody" he means "white males"? Because, really, it's never too early to start instilling them with a sense of entitlement and privilege. Maybe their next animated feature should just be titled "Girls Have Cooties" and have done with it.

[cereta]

I swear, in some ways, it's actually worse than when I was a kid.

[frog4]

The UK's Guardian has some suggestions for other films that little boys would like to see.

I would probably find them funnier if they were further from the truth, but I gotta admit, I would watch the hell out of GI Snow and the Seven Dwarfs