May 7, 2021 | 9:09 AM
The “wench auction” was among the first to go in the exodus of classic-but-problematic Disney scenes. In 2018, the popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride got an overhaul when a redhead who had once been sold as a bride became a pirate instead.
Two years later, the theme park giant announced it was overhauling the Splash Mountain flume ride to lose its story line inspired by Song of the South – an outdated Disney film that the company no longer makes available to view because of its rosy view of post-Civil War plantation life. More recently, the company announced updates to the classic Jungle Cruise ride to remove “negative depictions of ‘natives ” and add new elements, just in time for a new movie out this summer.
Prince Charming’s ‘true love’s kiss’ coming without Snow White’s consent in new Disneyland ride sparks debate
Updated May 07, 7:55 AM;
Posted May 07, 7:54 AM
Snow White came to Portland in 1987 to serve as grand marshal of the Rose Parade. The kiss Snow White receives from Prince Charming in the new Disneyland ride is stirring debate about consent. (The Oregonian)
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He shouldn’t be doing that, says the San Francisco news website SFGATE.
“The new grand finale of Snow White’s Enchanted Wish is the moment when the Prince finds Snow White asleep under the Evil Queen’s spell and gives her ‘true love’s kiss’ to release her from the enchantment,” Julie Tremaine and Katie Dowd write in a review of the newly reworked ride at Disneyland in Southern California. “A kiss he gives to her without her consent, while she’s asleep, which
May 7, 2021
I HOPE YOU REMEMBER TO WISH YOUR BIRTHING PERSON A GOOD DAY SUNDAY! Not very many things make me so angry at their stupidity that I decide to make it the focus of the show, but here we are. Rep. Cori Bush, in an effort to share her touching birth story as a mom, decided to use the gender inclusive language birthing person along with Mother or woman. I can t even with this. Now it s okay to erase MY identity to make a tiny percentage of the population that may want to present as a man but still have a baby comfortable. NO. I WILL NOT. Make up a new word, I completely reject having my sex and gender erased to soothe someone else s feelings. If this is addition to the language by someone who wants to be called this, fine. But I will not every use this as a part of speech unless asked to specifically by a person who wants to be called this. By the way, here story is important and I m glad she shared it, but the story is lost now because of this birthing person
7 May 2021
Disney Executive Creative Director Jim Shull took to Twitter on Wednesday to defend Disneyland’s Snow White Enchanted Wish ride, which has been under attack over a scene that critics say includes a “non-consensual kiss” between Prince Charming and Snow White.
“Allowing for the fact that cultural changes occur over decades it must be acknowledged that in the context of the tale on which the film is based that the ride is accurate,” Shull tweeted. “People are of course allowed to dislike the story but the Imagineering team did a spectacular job!”
Allowing for the fact that cultural changes occur over decades it must be acknowledged that in the context of the tale on which the film is based that the ride is accurate. People are of course allowed to dislike the story but the Imagineering team did a spectacular job! #Disneypic.twitter.com/3aXFkNvHv4