Disney and Gender
Apr. 29th, 2010 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So apparently if you wandered into Disney's online fairyland virtual world, you had to be a girl fairy. Except the kids were creating boy fairies anyway, by making girl fairies that looked like boys and giving them a male or gender neutral name. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they were butch fairies.
But Disney has finally given in and created a male option.
Only they're not fairies. They look like fairies. They presumably smell and sound like fairies. But heaven forbid anyone call them fairies! They're 'sparrow men'. Whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.
You can read more at Salon. And there's a pic.
Remember, Disney, remember back when one of your animation teams created Mulan? Remember when you were awesome? For that one, brief, beautiful year when Mulan was all anyone was talking about?
Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be
I'm not meant to play this part?
[...]
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
But Disney has finally given in and created a male option.
Only they're not fairies. They look like fairies. They presumably smell and sound like fairies. But heaven forbid anyone call them fairies! They're 'sparrow men'. Whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.
You can read more at Salon. And there's a pic.
Remember, Disney, remember back when one of your animation teams created Mulan? Remember when you were awesome? For that one, brief, beautiful year when Mulan was all anyone was talking about?
Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be
I'm not meant to play this part?
[...]
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
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Date: 2010-04-29 05:04 pm (UTC)Hey look, my icon is even appropriate to the discussion.
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Date: 2010-04-29 06:43 pm (UTC)