“They [the Winnie the Pooh stories] are built around a boy who arrives and puts things right, like little boys do.” That pretty much says it all. Welcome to the 21st Century. The old gender role models are being thrown away. Girls are allowed--no, encouraged--to have adventures and solve problems. They are no longer sitting at home learning how to cook and sew so they can eventually make some man happy and give him lots of children, while the boys are out having a good time in the Hundred Acre Wood. I love Winnie the Pooh and all of the other characters, including Christopher Robin, as much as anybody. But I can see that it's time for a paradigm shift in the way children are raised. The entertainment industry has the potential to do a lot of good, and it's often squandered or even debased. For once Disney is doing something positive. Geeze dude, if you don't like the addition of a female human, you must have had apoplexy when they added Gopher. Not to mention when heffalumps turned out to be real, that's a fundamental change in the story. Personally I never got over Pooh having eyebrows. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Occasionally Disney gets something right. Take the new "Chicken Little," for example. Everybody is up in arms because they changed the story. The sky really is falling and Chicken Little is a hero. Hmm. Isn't that maybe something that today's children need to be taught, considering how abysmally selfish, stupid, and incompetent this generation of adult leaders is? Persevere! Challenge authority! Just because everybody says you're wrong doesn't mean you're wrong! They could be lying to you, covering up the truth, because if people knew the sky was falling it would cut into Enron's profits. Does that sound at all familiar or are the references too American? Enron and our government's slavish loyalty to it is the company that is almost singlehandedly responsible for our shameless debacle in Iraq. Some of the stories that children are getting from TV and movies are not timeless classics that will be remembered in 500 years. They're topical and speak to a specific generation. Look at all the cartoons and other programs in which kids turn to each other for help. It almost seems as if there are no adults around at all, except dimly perceived on the edge of reality, muttering a few inane words and then going off to work or the gym. Isn't that how these poor kids are living? If they need help they have no one to rely on except other kids. I'm sorry for your loss but a whole generation of little girls will grow up just a tiny bit more ready to assume their share of leadership roles--and not a moment too soon if you ask me--thanks to your sacrifice.
they are not changing christopher robin to a girl because of gender equality,they are doing it to sell girls winnie the pooh crap. being exploited because of your gender IS sexism. instead of creating positive female role models,they just change a dude to a chick in hopes girls will give them more money. its sad you think thats ''equality''. its blatent sexist commercialism thinly vielded as ''eqaulity''. none of that is positive.
So Desperate Dan loses his gun and spurs--so the Fat Controller is now Mister Topham Hatt--so Big Ears is now White Beard--so the golliwog who wanted to become pink has now been 'reversed'--so Noddy and Big Ears can no longer have 'gay times in the woods' (the original meaning of 'gay' being lively, and having nothing to do with homosexuality). Political correctness is crap, I reckon. The sooner we get rid of it the better.
they even talked about profit. Sorry to say, but I don't think disney really cares about sexism and stuff, they care about pleasing their viewers, a.e. political correctness.
Christopher Robin never impressed me as a character. I always payed more attention to Pooh. I doubt changing Robin into a girl will help them much.
This just made alot of dirty old men's dreams come true Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes, Mars, we can all read the news too and we've all been drilled to recognize the danger signs of political correctness. Now go a little deeper into the collective unconscious. Synchronicity and all that stuff. Things happen for more than one reason.
