Disney and Cultural Studies

[kagyakusha]

Class this morning was very very painful.
Naturally, everyone who has read a little bit of Foucault feels that it is ok to vilify and attack anyone who likes Disney in spite of the problems within its various texts.

The classmate who pissed me off the most had the fucking nerve to tell me that it's unredeemable to like Pocahontas because it's "racist

Comments

[musikologie]

I hate those classes where people have read a little cultural theory and subsequently have to force it on you at every opportunity. Ugggggh.

[edgey_berzerker]

I think this animated gif says it all:

[kagyakusha]

excellent and appropriate use of this gif.

[polygonia]

Disney movies are entertaining.

Also, I do love Song of Solomon. So poetic and rather sexual. But, you are not racist for liking Pocahontas, though Disney's portrayal of real-life people is rather >.<. But yeah, intellectuals like that annoy me.