Excuse Me, Please, While I Laugh At One Million Moms
The parents group One Million Moms is urging a boycott of Disney’s Toy Story 4. First off, the group has no where near one million members. I haven’t seen the movie yet. I am unemployed and movies are a luxury; groceries come first.
Apparently, there is one scene in a one hour, forty minute movie they find offensive.
Distractify said “In a scene where Bonnie is being dropped off at school, you can see two moms in the background dropping off their little one. When pickup happens in the afternoon, you can see the two moms again greeting their child. It’s a subtle, minor moment, but people were touched nonetheless.” One Million Moms declared that these women were obviously a LGBTQ couple, calling it “ a noticeably small scene with the sole purpose of attempting to normalize this lifestyle.”
A, it’s 2019 CE. We don’t need to worry about normalizing this lifestyle. Millions of people do consider it normal.
B, two women dropping off a child together are not necessarily a Lesbian couple. It could be a mother and an aunt, or more likely a mother and her carpool partner. Dagwood Bumstead has been carpooling to work for decades, but I don’t think anyone has suggested any hanky-panky between him and the men and woman with whom he commutes.
C. Distractify said, “ the scene is so quick that many viewers didn’t even notice it the first time around.”
Disney has been subject to LGBTQ complaints for years, both that they lack sufficient representation and that they attempt to force pro-Gay scenes on their viewers (often in the same movie). Frozen had complaints that the shopkeeper at the supply store had a husband in the sauna, and other fans complaining that Queen Elsa and Princess Anna did not have a Lesbian love affair (despite the fact they’e sisters). Finding Dory apparently had two women in a park with a baby carriage. Some viewers complained those women were obviously a Lesbian couple.
Platonic friendships can exist between men and women or between women and women. LGBTQ relationships are not illegal in most states, and only a few people still consider them sinful. Representation is important, Buzzfeed says, and Danny Woodburn agrees. The days are long gone when children’s literature and children’s films don’t mention the existence of homosexuality, lest children learn Pauli Murray and Jane Addams preferred the company of their own gender. When I was in grade school, we were told Jane Addams was too busy with her charity work to have time to get married. It wasn’t until decades later that I learned she was Lesbian.
Excuse me, please, while I laugh at One Million Moms for overreacting about one scene in Toy Story 4. I have enough friends with young children that I will probably see the movie eventually.
