Disney does it again!
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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.
I’m glad to hear this. It gives me hope for a future husband/family that is better adjusted, lol
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. 😬😂