12 May 2007

How's that?

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/protests%20come%20early%20to%20disneys%20princess_1030749

It seems that even when someone is trying to exercise their politically correct bestness, someone somewhere is going to get all pissy. Now Disney pictures can't call a movie "The Frog Princess" because it might offend the French? The French can bite me. In all likelihood they're going to get offended at something American anyway. Our kids shouldn't get a decent animated flick out if it? How about we call the movie, "The Cheese loving, capitulating, surrender loving princess", that should get their goat. Christ on a crutch why is everyone so sensitive.

Then because the heroine of the movie is going to the first black princess, they can't call her Maddy (which I assume is short for Madeline, or some other name no one uses anymore) because....get this now.....it might be construed as being close to resembling Mammy.
Here I thought that Disney having an African American princess would be a good thing that everyone could agree on. Can't be good because it "might be construed" as "close to resembling" something that if you change the spelling, and infer some secret plot to subliminally undermine an entire segment of the American population would be a slap in the face to people.

It's gotten so bad that we have to police ourselves for things that aren't offensive, but may be if someone can't spell so good.

Wow. Just wow. Where's the bar?

Wait... I'm of Irish/Scottish ancestry...I think I just offended myself.


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