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@yogthos An alternative headline: "Bill Gates uses his charity organization to avoid paying taxes on $5B more of his income/"
@mattratt Super cool print
@[email protected] Haven't seen it. I was just thinking about Cinderella - this is older than Disney, obviously, but the message it sends is bombastic - however bad you are treated, even if you don't have any fault whatsoever, just be obedient, do what they say and wait for the miracle to happen.
@[email protected] I've seen that, I think - depicting rebels as unstable and sad. The "sad" part was really strong - I thought for a long time that "normal people" , even if they were just compromising, were happier than ones who are adamant. Took years to do away with this idea.
@[email protected] I view Disney movies as propaganda. That was their selling point: movies without "bad influence" on the kids i.e. ones that teach them to be obedient and unquestioning to the status quo.
I remember Pocahontas a love story which ended with her lover going away, just because he "had to" - lack of happy ending, very untypical for Disney movies (this was the only one, I think), but I guess having the characters succumb to the status quo was more important than following the form.
@[email protected] The question was a joke, right?
Otherwise super interesting post, I was also very inspired by X-men.
The Spiderman series from around that time were good as well.
@naomiohreally Maja Škripelj designed the Glagolitic script? (:
@kunev Don't agree that it was harder to pretend in the past - rather there were just less thing you could pretend to be (and less reasons for doing so).
@kunev Yea, so the levels of social stigma are higher - there are many situations where people were expecting different types of behaviors from you e.g. everyone is expected to appear very calm trustworthy in work setting and at the same time wild and reckless in parties. Seems like we are not content with seeing people for who they really are (ergo we are not content with who we really are.)