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Originally Posted by RedHeadGal
I (and BG) made several statements about reasons why I find that story offensive. I stand by those, regardless of who agrees.
Your responses have been to call my points "nonsense" or "reading too much in." You have not defended the story or explained why your judgment about its redeeming value is correct or ourweighs the concerns I express, if you are willing to concede they are real (which I doubt).
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I'm sure your concerns are real, I simply disagree with them. And just so we're clear, I didn't call your concerns or your points nonsense. I called your sarcastic suggestion that
parents shouldn't screen their children's entertainment rhetorical nonsense.
As for point-by-point defenses, I really don't care that much to "defend" Snow White. The prospect seems so silly to me as to deserve ridicule rather than seriousness. I suppose that's what annoys you the most.
As portrayed in the Disney version, it's a cute, harmless little story that has entertained kids for decades. The points noted by
Barbara about a white girl slavishly cleaning up after 7 bachelor slobs just make me literally laugh out loud. Adults get so wound up in their own prejudices and PC insecurities that they (IMO) forget that kids don't really care.
For me, it's like
racist charges against Star Wars. Or that a Christmas tree or a "Merry Christmas" poster or a nativity scene threatens non-Christians or is
discriminatory. Or that the Golden Compass is going to
turn all our kids into atheists. It really makes me want to ask, "Don't you people have any
real problems?"
There are battles worth fighting in entertainment. Pervasiveness of pornography. Violence on television. Excessive profanity and the resulting coarseness in society.
Sorry, but to me, Snow White is just not one of those missions. On the list of things that I consider threatening or detrimental to kids, Snow White and Hannah Montana fall way low on the list.