Posted on 07/03/2019 2:28:23 PM PDT by Ennis85
Pro-LGBT activists are praising Disney’s Toy Story 4 for including a “small but important moment of LGBTQ representation” with a scene of two moms dropping off a boy to school, both of them showing him affection.
“At the start of the movie, when Woody’s new owner Bonnie goes for her first day of kindergarten, there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene where one child is dropped off by two moms. Later, the moms return to pick up their child and give them a hug,” states Gay Times in a June 26 article about the scene.
“It’s a small scene, sure, and it’s certainly not the major representation that queer people have been waiting for, but it’s still important. This is one of the biggest movies of the year, after all, and will be seen by millions of all ages around the world,” it added.
Toy Story 4 is now in cinemas and features the continuing saga of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and other beloved characters in yet another iteration of a series that has delighted audiences and filled the coffers at the Walt Disney Company. The movie was produced by Pixar studios, which is wholly owned by Disney - a company that is one of the biggest media empires on the planet.
Kate Gardner at The Mary Sue agreed that the pro-LGBT moment “was not groundbreaking by any standard” but praised the scene as a “small moment of normalisation.”
“Here was a major family-friendly film, one of the biggest Disney Pixar releases, and they included a lesbian couple with their son. It’s a small moment of normalization, even if it’s minor. This isn’t a show on Netflix, or a banned episode of Arthur. It’s a Disney Pixar movie, and it showed two women caring for their child together,” she wrote.
The American Family Association (AFA) said in a report that the scene “blindsided” families.
“The scene is subtle in order to desensitize children. But it is obvious that the child has two mothers, and they are parenting together,” wrote Monica Cole, director of One Million Moms, in a piece appearing on AFA. The small scene could have only been included with the “sole purpose of attempting to normalize this lifestyle,” she added.
Cole said that Toy Story 4 is the “last place parents would expect their children to be confronted with content regarding sexual orientation. Issues of this nature are being introduced too early and too soon.”
“Disney has decided once again to be politically correct versus providing family-friendly entertainment. Disney should stick to entertaining instead of pushing an agenda and exposing children to controversial topics,” she added.
Focus on the Family also cautioned parents about the scene in it's "plugged in" review of the film.
"The very brief inclusion of a same-sex couple in the background of one scene, which we've noted in this updated review, is also an important issue families will want to consider with regard to this film," the review stated.
The film marks Disney’s latest effort to push the normalization of homosexuality on children. Other Disney films that push the normalization of homosexuality include:
The Disney cartoon Doc McStuffins featured a family headed by two lesbian "moms" in its 2017 show about an aspiring doctor. It's marketed to preschoolers. Disney’s 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast featured a homosexual subplot where one of the film’s characters was refashioned to be homosexual. Disney Channel introduced in 2017 a homosexual teen character in “Andi Mack.” The show was aimed principally at a preadolescent television audience. Last year the writer and co-director of Disney’s popular “Frozen” animated film gave what the Huffington Post called a “glimmer of hope” regarding main character Elsa coming out of the closet as a lesbian. Disney’s upcoming film Jungle Cruise will feature for the first time an openly homosexual character.
Thanks for the review Martin- now i won’t make a mistake by taking the kids to this movie- well done disney- keep driving people away from your movies by celebrating the abomination of homosexuality just to appease less than 3% of the population who revel in the abomination-
“At the start of the movie, when Woody’s new owner Bonnie goes for her first day of kindergarten, there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene where one child is dropped off by two moms. Later, the moms return to pick up their child and give them a hug,” states Gay Times in a June 26 article about the scene.
TRY to imagine a life where you are so desperately seeking validation that you have to strain to see the homosexuality in every scene and rejoice when you find it.
Gay times.
toying around with us huh
Disney has put their own quirky Easter eggs in their productions for years.
While I am appalled it could just as easily be mom and an aunt, mom and a friend, adult cousin and family friend...one can’t visually discern it is “two moms.”
And we all only have one mom.
Whoops! That sound you hear is me yanking this "Rated G" movie from my Netflix queue. This travesty needs to be shouted far and wide.
"Normalization" is a mental state the queer community is striving for and have been for years. They are a lot closer today than they have ever been. They are working very hard to desensitize "normal" folks so we see their debased life style as just another thing.
Lesbians who blinked during that scene and missed it are saying that the character "Bo Peep" in the cartoon is a lesbian, perhaps because she wears pants.
Are they gonna include the scenes where they rip off his genitalia, and behead him?
This is why I watch older classic movies. They remind me of when America was great. I think Avengers: Endgame may be my last current Hollywood film.
“This is why I watch older classic movies. They remind me of when America was great.”
Same here, I’ve come to resent this era we live in and so I recently started watching old movies I’ven ever seen before. Thought I should start getting into Western so I watched Shane a few nights ago.
“Endgame may be my last current Hollywood film.”
I made a promise to myself that Endgame would at least be the MCU movie I’d ever see so I don’t think I’ll be seeing the new Spiderman.
I saw the movie, and I sure the hell didn’t notice it.
It was like when I saw Avengers Endgame I never noticed it. I didn’t even find out about out about it till 5 days later.
I’m starting to think this is now the beginning of a trend. Disney have been pushing an a agenda for a while both in their cartoons and supporting pride month but the movie have been mostly left alone but it seems that could be changing.
We’re in the phase of “the creep” if you will, try to insert a little gay content here and there but not so much that people will notice. They know they can’t be too blatant about it otherwise it’ll wind up being banned in societies that prohibit any portrayal of this kind of content and even cause an uproar in parts of the US like that episode of Arthur did.
It’ll get worse from here on I think.
Between Disney buying up studios and shoving PC LGBTWXYZ crap down our throats and the Communist Chinese buying up studios and shoving pro-Chinese Communist crap down our throats, we are fast running out of options...
Indeed. You don’t have to be Russian to appreciate Crime and Punishment. You don’t have to be a woman to enjoy Little Women. Etc. But many in the millennial crowd don’t see it that way. They have to be catered to in all ways.
Thanks for the warning. If we ever get the DVD to play at movie night at church, I’ll be sure to preview it to know where to fast forward.
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