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Finally!
It appears that Disney is getting the message that people who come to their films don’t want to be inundated and repulsed with LGBTQ+ and woke messages:
Disney has cut a transgender storyline from its new animated series, ‘Win or Lose,’ ahead of the show’s release. The original animated series from Disney-owned studio Pixar centers around a co-ed middle school softball team, the Pickles, in the run-up to the group’s championship game. Each of the series’ eight episodes, which will begin to roll out on Disney+ on Feb. 19, will focus on a different member of the Pickles.
Disney representatives say that they are obliging parents who say they “would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timelines.” And Bob Iger, bless his heart, wants to go back to Disney’s roots:
‘The term woke is thrown around rather liberally,’ Iger said. ‘I think a lot of people don’t even understand really what it means. The bottom line is that infusing messaging as a sort of a number one priority in our films and TV shows is not what we’re up to. They need to be entertaining.’
But after years of making movies with trans themes, maybe Disney is getting the message. Film revenues with those themes have been disappointing for the corporation.
In addition, there have been counterinsurgencies:
The parental rights movement was among the most significant.
That movement largely motivated Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to declare war against the cultural influence of Disney in the Sunshine State over the past two years.
Disney decisively lost that war, and their reputation has never fully recovered.
After torching millions of dollars, Disney may finally be learning the lesson that those who go woke also tend to go broke.
But Bob Iger, in my opinion, is still not getting the message. He made this remark recently at the DealBook Summit:
‘I like being able to do that, entertain, and if you can infuse it with positive messages and have a good impact on the world, fantastic, but that should not be the objective,’ Iger said. ‘When I came back, what I’ve really tried to do is to return to our roots — which is, remember, we have to entertain first: It’s not about messages.’
No, Bob. You’re wrong. If you really want to be regaled by your audiences, you can both entertain AND include messages about love, truth, justice, responsibility, commitment—you know, the kinds of things that people actually treasure in their daily lives.
Will Disney back off the woke agenda? Will they withstand the screaming and protests of the Left?
Time will tell.
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Susan, we all know what that means now.
Disney wanted to be the woke-of-the-woke and picked Rachel Zegler as their spokeszombie. She is Disney's woke centerpiece and star of the Snow White remake. Her quote for Trump supporters is, "I hope you never know peace."
I called her out, and Disney's downfall in July of 2023 with my post, Snow Beige and the Seven Carbon-Based Units.
Man, I need to step up my post titles. That was funny.
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Most reviewed movie prior to release, ever. Second most reshot movie after Captain America 4: Title To Be Announced (Again). When I look for a fount of truth, I always look to corporate CEOs. Zegler is such a screen presence that she played the junior villain in Shazam: Fury of the Gods, and people that loved that movie are convinced that she was not in it. (And it is Bob Iger, not Bob Eiger. Bob Eiger was sanctioned, after all. I did one of those earlier today. Tis the season of phasing on name spellings.)
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Thanks, Sisyphus! I hate when I do that, but love to be corrected!
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Well, here is a cut-n-paste of the first four comments before the big release in March. I am very entertained so far. Makes me want to go drive my Jaguar sippin' a Bud lite.
Wow. Disney. You truly are incredible. It took you 3 years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, and 209 million dollars just for me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you. 62K
Reply 327 replies@emer1571 day agoThe hatred of this movie will reunite the world. Its a Christmas miracle2.3K Reply3 days ago1. Stop the video at 0.00 2. Enjoy the comments section5.5K Reply44 replies@JamesL-x482023 hours agoI'd pay $18 and sit in an Imax theater just to watch a scroll of this comments section.
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I'm of the opinion that, when the culture reaches a tipping point, it's best to keep tipping.
In that spirit, I hope Disney does include a boy competing on the girls' team. I think the more fed up people get, the better. I count on the woke left being utterly tone-deaf, and have yet to be disappointed.
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