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What is up with that? These are kids shows.
And I was a kid when I watched them
*Movies...
...that parents also have to watch. Back In the day watching an animated film was a family event. You wouldn't just plant a kid in front of a TV and go do your own thing. Thats why old cartoons are fully of innuendos that only adults would get.
The fuck they wouldnt. Theyd even bitch at you across the house about sitting to close cause they made you turn the sound almost off cause they were talking.
Not just innuendos but themes that are more mature than we would associate with children. Not only for the parents accompanying their kids but good writing makes it possible to teach a young audience about otherwise difficult topics. Kung Fu Panda 2 deals with a whole genocide, for example. The Hunchback of Notre Dame had all that about religious fanatism and the deliberate racial persecution of a certain group of people. Thinking back on it, 101 Dalmatians had a woman chasing puppies to make a coat out of puppies. Innuendos are funny if you look back at them as an adult but that's also what makes movies timeless and rewatchable even after aging out of the main target group.
"Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind."
- Vin Diesel
"I'll kill you with my teacup."
- Lilo
I can hear her say it. Totally in character
Which is why it says "what i grew up with" you dingus
Did somebody summon me?
Huh? I'm rhetorically asking why Disney does this. Why do you feel the need to insult me if you're the one misunderstanding me.
Whats wrong with having thicc thighed women in kids shows?
Micky likes them thicc
Kids famously hate everything involving butts. /s
I'm not saying that. I was actually thinking about the messaging by the animation companies.
And what supposed "messaging" do you mean, exactly?
What messaging do you think a disproportionate body type of a woman solely meant to evoke sexual interest in grown men signals to children, specifically girls? And if we're going to play the it's-ok game, where are the sexy men, then? Not handsome, not pretty, but sexy. Do you not see anything wrong with this imbalance even by your own logic?
But besides all this, for all the pedophile pearl clutching done around here, you seem perfectly fine with turning on 12 year-old children. "It's fine when it's a woman with a boy" energy.
What do you mean "disproportionate" and "solely meant to evoke sexual interest in grown men? People with thick hips exist. And depicting women with (exaggerated) thick hips is several thousands of years old.
Would you also call the designs of Aurora, Belle and any other disney princess as being designed to "solely [...] evoke sexual interest in grown men"? Those characters could also be described as out of the norm.
That's right. There's absouletly no oversexualized man in animation. /s
What are you even talking about? What do you mean with "my own logic"?
And what do you mean by that? Are you seriously insinuating that people overreact over fucking Epstein? O.o
These are movies. No one is sexually harrassing children. And children that have no interest/concept of sex don't notice any sexual innuendo (and these body types aren't even sexual innuendo).
And for teenagers developing their sexual inner-workings: these teenagers will get sexually aroused from anything. I'm glad that "unhealthily skinny" isn't the only body type these kids see. And movies are a safe way of exploring these feelings. Without anybody being harrassed.
You spread "no sex-ed books for children" energy, homie.
Edit: Now I found the right words for it: Your urge to shield teenagers from any depiction that's remotely erotic in nature (very remotely) is downright puritan. And I think that's weird from someone who's close to talking pedophile apologia ("pedophile pearl clutching ").
No child should be burdened with the knowledge that hot women exist. It's developmentally necessary that no one encounter a woman in swimwear until they turn 18. Failure to protect our most vulnerable from the permanent damage of this experience is the cause of all today's societal woes.
Straw-man, why don't you. Go for the low-hanging fruit to punch down. That's all you assholes entertain yourselves with while stroking hard.