Ott-Dahl and her wife, Andrea, are the mothers of three children from 15 months to 9 years
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Yeah OK
They had one. Michael Eisner.
While we are there how about kids from a stable family with a father who works and a mother who takes care of the kids and the home?
Why is it important to do this?
And is a Disney princess really supposed to be a role model for children???
I guess I don’t follow the reasoning.
The ultimate helicopter parent narcissism.
What, exactly, is the point of heroes, fantasy, make-believe, entertainment, etc. if the persons portrayed are like us? Can we not enjoy the story of Jor-El/Clark Kent/Superman without being a Kryptonian baby in exile, a mild-mannered reporter, a superhero or, less ambitiously, a 6-4 250-lb white male with black hair?
Must we be an orphan, a resident of Tattooine or a Jedi apprentice to enjoy and/or look up to plucky Luke Skywalker?
Is Frozen a world-smashing hit because its female fans are princesses, with or without the curse of a cold touch?
Did everyone who enjoyed Pocahontas have Native American ancestry?
I could go on. This is the poorly-disguised wail of parents who, despite their claims and acts, feel cheated, disappointed, even angry that their daughter has Down's.
Disney has contorted itself into pretzel knots time and again to align itself with an untold number of PC agenda items. Somehow, it's never enough, because there will always be an audience member who wants to a custom-made film hero like they order sandwich toppings.
The parent purports to speak for his child but his Freudian slip is early and obvious: he's worried about his own reactions. The child can and probably does enjoy Disney like the rest of us do: as entertainment. Young kids may live vicariously through the characters but even kids realize that they will never take flight like Peter Pan nor live in a hollow tree like Winnie The Pooh.
Here's an idea, Keston Ott-Dahl, you whining milquetoast. Turn off the damned TV and create a fantasy world of characters and adventures with your daughter. You can choose any attributes, powers, plots or outcomes you like. See how easy that was?
>>A Disney cartoon Down syndrome princess, Ott-Dahl said, would “talk a little differently, I’m sure she’d look different.
“But it would be someone that Delaney could say, ‘I want to grow up just like her.’ ”<<
Not much in this world more irritating than a self-centered idiot with a cause.
Does the LA Weekly honestly believe that Dopey was created to honor the "mentally challenged"???? Are they kidding? This is what happens when you apply our PC cultural standards to vapid entertainment reporting.
Speaking for myself, I'd love to see a Disney movie about a child who is rescued from abortion and grows up to be a valuable and productive member of society.
What percent of the population is comprised of girls with DS?
Too bad Disney has only princesses and no longer anything to speak to normal young men. No prince charming, to action hero of daring do. Instead they bought marvel comics with its fractured licensees. (but like star wars, there is no Disney influence just a mining of characters for formula stories)
These homosexual women want to portray the abnormal as normal, rather that promote the normal in the child.
My guess is Disney will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to undermine the notion that they should all be aborted.
How bout a retarded, GAY Princess..?
She doesn’t realize the guilty rage that will be unleashed by such a release.
I grew up in NY state (NYC is a different country). Down’s kids were very rare. Heard of, but very rarely seen.
Then I moved to GA. Down’s kids seem everywhere. A regular part of life.
I wondered why.
Then the obvious tragedy hit me.
A whole lotta people would react very badly to a “Disney Down’s Princess” out of raging guilt.
Just sayin’.
Retardo Man(or Woman)?
What would be the superpower(s)?
This begs for a skit on SNL.
Just how many people would this concept appeal to? Aren’t most of the unborn with Downs murdered?
A hero with Down’s Syndrome...
and his last name shall be Palin.
“Now a Bay Area couple...”
I should’ve known...
“Ott-Dahl and her wife, Andrea, are the mothers of three children...”
Uh-huh.