Disney does it again!
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There are soooo many things that are inappropriate in this movie too. I know most of us parents on here are probably very careful with what we let our kids watch, if we let them watch anything at all, but if anyone wants the rundown, here’s the list of things(it’s long) that prompted us to tell our 6 year old that she isn’t allowed to watch this movie at our home or anyone else’s home.
Just a few things that stood out:
-The little girl talks about at age 13 you’re your own person. An adult. You can do what you want, say what you want etc.
-Her and her 3 friends talk so poorly about their parents and come up with a plan to sneak out and go to a boy band concert (which they end up doing).
-The girls sneak out to a co-ed party as well to “give boys rides” as a Panda to raise money for the concert.
-One girl says her parents won’t let her go bc the band “sounds like stripper music”
-The girls talk about going to the concert as girls but leaving as true women after.
-The word “crap” is used.
-So much emphasis is put on her friends encouraging her to be this new rebel she has become and embracing it. That she no longer has to be this straight edge, over achiever girl under her parents wings.
-Soooooo much rebellion encouraged.
-The ritual is suuuuper freaky where she is levitated by her chest into the air while surrounded by adults chanting and spirits are called out of her.
-She tells her tamagotchi its about to meet its daddy and uncles (referring to the band members being her tamagotchis daddy)
-There is a big scene about the girl getting her period and her mom bringing pads to her school and embarrassing her.
-The little girl draws “sexy” (her words not mine) pictures of her crush who works at the gas station. Her mom finds the drawings of her shirtless crush and brings them to the store and accuses the boy of being 30 and a pedophile. He says he’s 17 and she says “well that’s what happens when you do drugs all day and don’t wear sunscreen”
-At the end the girl stands up to her mom and says she likes boys, music and gyrating. Says she’s 13 so deal with it!
-The little girl then starts twerking at her mom and smacking her butt saying “take this mom! take this”
-Final quote when the little girl decides to turn into a panda in public and her mom asks her not to she says “my panda, my choice”. Read into that what you’d like.
Thank you for your service. Will definitely be staying away from this one.
Panda eyes come to mind.
IMO the menstrual cycle part isn’t that bad for teens. That’s the one thing I agreed about in terms of the movie—that women getting/having periods doesn’t have to be so taboo.
The sexualisation of minors needs to go, but getting the stigma around that time of the month being something unnatural/to be ashamed of to go away would be good…
I don’t know, it’s still weird to make a kid’s cartoon about periods. A kid’s cartoon about wet dreams would be weird too. I also think this narrative about “period shaming” is a media creation. Nobody cares that women get periods, men don’t care and we don’t think about it as much as liberals seem to think. This all started because of a stupid running joke in the ‘80s about men not wanting to buy tampons for their wives, which is itself another media-created fake sitcom scenario that practically never happens either, since women buy that shit for themselves and leave men out of it. To me all of these narratives reek of the liberal mental disorder of making up fake problems to avoid obvious reality.
Yeah, the period thing wouldn’t be as big of a deal if Disney truly meant this to be for teenagers and up and they didn’t, it’s supposed to be for children. And, while I don’t have a problem talking to my daughter about anything she might ask me about, I would prefer her to not know about periods at age six and certainly not b/c she heard about them on a cartoon that’s supposed to be for kids.🤷🏼♀️ Also, whether it’s for kids or teenagers, I don’t understand why it’s necessary to put scenes like that in movies. Did that part really make or break the plot line? Nope, it didn’t.
I’m glad to hear you don’t have a problem with it, as my brother and father still avoid discussing the matter at all costs, lol.
I haven’t seen the movie and don’t plan on seeing it due to the obvious political agenda behind the film, but it seemed like it was marketed more for middle schoolers than young kids to me. And while my current experience working in child care is a little limited, the youngsters don’t seem to care about this movie one bit. But older teens appear to have watched it.
You know, my Dad was always very mature about it (as a grown man should be, lol) and my Mom would call him occasionally to have him pick up feminine things for me and my sister on his way home from work. It’s weird b/c my parents are very old school when it comes to “propriety”. You don’t talk or joke about sex, make fart jokes, etc., and while my parents were discreet about me and my sister’s period, like we weren’t discussing it with my brother at the dinner table 😂, they both acted like it was the most normal and ok thing in the world whenever Dad would have to stop at the store for feminine products. In fact, I feel like I remember Mom reassuring me the first time it happened that Dad was a big boy and he wasn’t embarrassed by it so I shouldn’t be embarrassed either. Probably the only subject they’ve been progressive about in my life. 🤷🏼♀️😂
My husband has also picked things up at the store for me and while he teases me that he’s only going to do it one time, I know he’s only joking and it’s not a big deal at all.
Disney had a film about menstruation back in the fifties/sixties. Joyce Maynard describes it in her memoir "Looking Back."
Richard Roeper in his review had a good point. Parents will take little kids to see this because it looks cute and harmless and then have to explain about getting periods perhaps a little earlier than intended.
This! ☝🏻 But the period part was the least of my concerns out of that long list. The encouragement to rebel against your parents w/ no reconciliation to that and the girl telling her mom in the end to “deal with it” as she slaps her butt. I have a problem with that whether my daughter is 6 or 13. Now if she was 13 I would maybe use it as a teaching opportunity but no matter what there’s just some things that children don’t need to fill their minds with or have normalized and rebellion is one of them. They learn that well enough on their own, I’m living proof of that. 😬😂
This needs to be stickied❗️ Word needs to get out to NOT let our kids watch this movie. I could see parents or grandparents innocently letting their children watch something like this!
They’re stealing our children’s innocence.
I don’t think you can sticky a comment, probably just posts. 🤷🏼♀️ But I agree, I always want to know other conservative parents reviews about kids movies if I haven’t watched the movie myself.
There are websites for that. Just look up “parents guide” and the movie title. There are a few different places I use and they are fairly comprehensive, although sometimes their descriptions make things sound worse than they actually are in the movie (“kiss my butt” might be referred to as “sexual innuendo”, which I guess it is, but most parents aren’t going to be super worried about a line of dialogue like that, and when you hear “sexual innuendo” you usually picture something more graphic).
Unfortunately, comments can't be stickied, but at least the original comment is close to the top.
Thanks for posting this…I wish Disney could be wiped-off the face of planet Earth!!
how terrible!
Yeah, um, sheltering your kids is a sure fire way to ensure they resent you when they're older. Six years old is somewhat understandable, however I wouldn't keep them there past 9 or 10.
As for the adult 13... Holy fuckin hypocritical hilarity, Batman. So many espouse traditional values and yet here you are insisting on the status quo when in reality God designed us so adulthood began at 13. And really it should though I'm more of the belief of making it a transition period not so much full fledged meaning overhauls on education and labor and general cultural changes so that by the time 18 rolls around they know how to hold a job, they know their rights, they know how to be responsible and so forth.
In fact, if you want your children to respect you, you'll begin to empower them and take those five years to set them up for success.
But here's the deal: you cannot protect them forever. They will see that movie and if they feel you were over protective they will resent you for it. Source: have sibling who resents father for being to overly protective.
Some here think we're returning to the garden and that knowledge is satan. Here's the truth: the fruit has been eaten. That's not going away. If anything we have to learn to live with the knowledge for eternity. Plus the prevention of study of other cultures is so painfully authoritarian and manipulative, I find it laughable how quick this group is to point out the cabal's manipulations yet give a pass to those same tactics if someone does them and slaps the name of Jesus in front of them.
So, I don’t know what other cultures have to do with a children’s movie, but then again, a lot of your observations are way off base to me. Obviously, we have very different view points about the world we’re living in and how we got here. Just because the fruit has already been eaten doesn’t mean we just say “to hell with it, it only goes to hell in a hand basket from here”. God tells us that as Christian we are not to be of this world. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.1 John 2:15-17
As far as what kind of a parent I am, all I can say is that I was VERY sheltered growing up and my parents made plenty of mistakes, as all parents do and as I’m sure I will. However, I’d say me and my siblings each survived our strict upbringing and are better adults, spouses, parents, employees, citizens, and people in general because of it. None of us rebelled to the point of no return and while we might do things a little differently than our parents, we’re still raising our kids with the core principles we were raised with, knowing our children will be better and happier for it. And hey, maybe if more people raised their kids like my parents did instead of how all the free spirit hippies did, America wouldn’t be in the position it’s in right now. But hey, what do I know, I’m just a prudish, conservative mom. 🤷🏼♀️
Hey it's your relationship with your kids to risk. I'm just speaking from experience. I also know kids who were not as strictly raised who arguably turned out better than me and others who attend church every Sunday. Point is, it's not as absolute as you tell yourself.
Also, God does not say any of what you just quoted. That comes from Paul, a man who's awakening story is told three different times with the same consistency as Joseph Smith, the father of Mormonism. He also never met Jesus in person yet his letters are taken as absolute law. Though it is not my place to determine if Paul was right, his writings have been accepted as law and that has caused a lot more damage and division in the long run. Instead of keeping perspective, people will quote him as though his word trumps that of Jesus Himself and that is a lot of my issue with Christianity as a whole: it's not so much based on Jesus as it is Paul. In fact the religion should be recognized as Paulism. Now if you choose to accept Paul's INTERPRETATION for your self, that is perfectly fine. However I do not submit to the authority of a man who conveniently shaped the religion to fit into Roman culture and I certainly do not place him above or even close to Jesus.
A lot of people seem very confident that they are right and have happened to, out of 7,000,000,000 people and over 6,000 religions, scored the correct and true religion. Of course, you know who else was sure Jesus was on their side? The Pharisees, members of the most prominent and established religion at the time Christ walked the Earth. Just some things to think about.
Ultimately the best thing you can teach your children is to respect all Americans and even all people of the world and remember to acknowledge that we are a rich and diverse species and that Jesus taught to love... I certainly fail at this regularly. Most importantly though... regardless of what your kids choose, always love and accept them as Christ loves and accepts us even when we're deep in the gutter.