The cultural left is deeply devoted to the morally divergent. A character with the amoral mentally of Cesare Borgia is not ‘a strong woman’ but an ethically debached one. Making such a character a sort of hero in a children’s oriented media presentation is propagandizing deviance to those to intellectually informed to know they are being manipulated.
No kidding. And thanks to that and her OCD in trying to “prop up Belle” like this with this kind of talk, Belle’s wrecked as a character. Ironically, the 2017 remake may have if anything done more to fix her character ultimately. I sure as heck hope Woolverton doesn’t adore the French Revolution, because I currently fear 1991 Belle will end up becoming a Jacobin down the road.
Heck, it was such a bad idea to promote Maleficent as an actual good guy that even Angelina Jolie, the woman who played the character in this garbage film, was against making her a firm good guy if this is to be believed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlf0pDy43g8