Posted on 09/09/2025 11:05:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Disney finally admitted what we all knew...they drove men away. Now they want us back. Sorry Mouseketeers it's too late for that!
From Star Wars to ESPN, they spent years mocking men, turning heroes into failures, and lecturing their own audience about “toxic masculinity.”
The result? Empty theaters. Disney+ bleeding subscribers. ESPN reduced to a feminist pep rally. And now the company is begging for the very men they said were irrelevant.
But here’s the truth: once men are gone, they’re gone. No amount of reboots, apologies, or desperate spin can bring them back. Disney chose to lose men — and men moved on.
i still avoid gilette
Besides, chick flicks are boring as hell and ‘wokeness’ is like picking up a turd by the clean end. Men aren’t coming back, they don’t need anything Disney has to offer ever again.
And they are the first ones out with Christmas commercials already too. 🙄
I never forget betrayal. Disney is done for me FOREVER.
Disney owns Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and countless other universes of characters that would be a natural draw for the young male audience that they are looking for ... if only Disney had not destroyed them all by going woke.
The revolt against Disney has been going on for 30 years at least, and every decade they kept getting worse instead of better.
I will happily come back to Disney if they not only make some better movies but as a policy quit loading their products up with homosexual/grooming content. I will reward good behavior and I miss the old days of classic Pixar; in fact, even Captain America’s and the Avengers’ plotlines were not only conservative, but warned that we were all about to be cancelled, in the grand metaphor of death.
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With full and proper attribution to Bullish, I will be using the brilliant phrase above!
As a man of almost 70 years, I remember the absolute joy of Disneyland. We did not have much money growing up, so we visited maybe twice. In my twenties, I saved money from work and visited one more time.
Disney is now dead to me.
Saw nothing wrong with that scene. Excellently done. They had no notion they were twins and that relationship was always understood to be just trying to make Hans jealous. The reason for incest taboos is to avoid defective offspring. Not a danger there. The looks on Luke’s face and the look on Hans’ were brilliantly done and were just another win in a brilliant movie.
Personnel are policy. I’ll believe Disney wants to change when there’s a Board shakeup and a new CEO.
The other big streamers are a mixed lot but are basically caught in a race to the bottom. They are in the subscription business, not the movie business, and over the last couple of years, it’s become abundantly clear that the people in charge are far more interested in the rights to big sports leagues and events than they are in movies.
A lot of the indies and smaller studios are still trying to do good work. Among the majors, David Ellison, who led the Skydance buyout of Paramount, seems committed to theatrical exhibition; the new Skydance Paramount Corp. movies will eventually stream, but they want to restore a more balanced model, with a serious theatrical run first. That bears watching.
Movies designed for self-selected, active viewers who commit an evening, the price of a ticket, and the implied commitment to sit quietly in a darkened theaters for 2 hours, plus or minus, are different from movies designed for passive channel surfing, couch potato viewers who have the boob tube on as background noise while they scroll on their phones. Sure, there’s an overlap, but it’s two different gravitational fields and it shows in the kinds of films produced.
Most people will (they won't admit it on FR). But it will take time, and people will wait to hear if the film is woke/gay/grooming/misandrist/feminist/racist/anti-American garbage before they consider watching or allowing their children to watch. Disney (and Hollywood in general) will have to go a long ways to correct course, like embracing traditional gender roles and western values, something they are unlikely to do. Not to mention reeling in their "talent" from making outrageous public comments that offend mainstream Americans.
Exhibit A: ESPN’s SEC Network ignores Sun Belt Conference men’s soccer featuring the two SEC schools. The Kentucky-South Carolina “SEC Derby” gets zero coverage because they want no focus, when fans of both sides believe it’s necessary to cover their Sun Belt conference game but it’s the SEC Derby.
ESPN wants to focus on women’s sport to meet Title IX. And eventually that will lead to plans for high schools to scuttle all boys’ sport, first by starting with newly minted high schools where only girls can play. This follows NBC’s work with Olympics coverage. Focus on women only.
Men are now ignored, which is the deliberate way. It’s this deliberate elimination of male sport why we’re seeing men on NFL dance teams and transgenderism gimmicks in women’s sport. What can a boy do when he’s told he cannot play sport because of federally imposed gender quotas against him while girls have pages of options? I saw this firsthand when I saw communities feature summer camps only for girls’ activities.
“”””Personnel are policy.””””
What year was it that they made the probably atheist, homosexual Jewish guy CEO?
One can really see the contrast on the history channel series, how Disney built America what a patriot Walt Disney was, and what he and his team went through to get to where they were at the height of its popularity.
That is if you can get past the DEI so-called experts who are nothing more than affirmative action teleprompter readers
Excellent point about movies. One style is designed for two hours of quiet viewing compared to passive channel surfing as background noise.
Netflix specialises in this style, and the Emmys reward it. Now they emphasise X-rated shows that multiplexes won’t touch (”Kyle Busch Rule”) because nobody under 18 can work a multiplex when an X-rated film is shown in a screen. The term comes from a CART Champ Car race in 2001 when a 16-year old driver set fast time in free practice during a support race, and when the CART feature arrived, CART tossed the support race driver for being too young when every CART racer had tobacco sponsorship it seemed.
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