Posted on 01/31/2010 2:31:50 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian
Its new film The Princess and The Frog features a black princess, but Disney has still been criticised for its alleged lack of diversity.
Disney has been praised for breaking down barriers by featuring its first black princess in the film The Princess and The Frog. Oona King, who was Gordon Brown's senior policy adviser on equalities and diversity, is not satisfied, however.
"You never see disabled people," the former Labour MP complained to Mandrake at a screening at the Mayfair Hotel in London. "When are you going to see a Disney film with a disabled character in the lead role? Tell me that."
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Good grief.
The Little Mermaid couldn’t walk or survive on land, without help from a wicked witch. I guess she doesn’t count in the land of Diversity.
Hmm, what I would give to live back in the days when piddlys**t like this wasn’t a concern.
These people have selective amnesia...plus they made it clear long ago that they’d never be satisfied.
What about the seven dwarfs? The Hunchback of Notre Dame? All ‘physically challenged’. /s
Now you knew that was coming didn’t you??
Personally I want an old fat princess.. there is too much age discrimination going on
Ariel the little mermaid didn’t have feet,, i felt so bad when she was flopping around on the deck. And she was mute when Ursela stole her voice. And Sleeping beauty had chronic fatigue syndrome,,,and all those short people around her,, Oh yeah,, Dwarves? Isnt that a hormonal thing?
Put a sock in it, communist brit.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it. Why attack DISNEY?? if you want a disabled princess, why not attack the PRINCESS?
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame?”
Good catch
What about Sleeping Beauty? A coma is pretty dang disabled
Probably not until after they do a version with a transgendered or bi- frog in the lead role. Get back in line, buddy...
and Polyanna!!!! She was a crippled in the end....
Old Yeller got rabies,,,
Seven dwarfs??????
Right after they show a ugly princess and buck tooth prince with pimples...
Being turned into a frog is not being disabled?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Beast from Beauty and the Beast don’t count.
They are evil white men, and deserve whatever has befallen them; these people are only concerned about a Princess who apparently has life too good for their tastes.
I think with the stuff that is going on in the world today (multiple wars, terrorism, Marxim in the White House, etc )- b*tching and moaning about his is lower on the priority than a fresh coat of paint on the dog house.
Well, they could cast Oona King in the role if they want a mentally disabled person.
And how would the mermaid do it you knoe do the nasty
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