"Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

I have never been a huge fan of Disney films. 'I haven't even seen the lion king', i commented on last Friday to a group of shocked faces. Fridays lecture on disneyfication really interested me and has been one the few lectures that i have enjoyed telling my friends and family the facts i have learned. Did you ever think about Disney being sexist? I don't think i really did but after it was pointed out its as clear as day. Particularly in the short film we were shown that commented on the idea of Jasmin in Aladdin, seducing Jafar (or whoever, see not a Disney groupie) to help Aladdin get away with the lamp. When you think about this its ridiculous, conveying to young girls that all they need to do to get what they want is sell themselves. Similarly in The little mermaid when Ariel sacrifices her voice to have legs so she can be with the prince but now all she has to woo him with is her body, a similar message don't you think? Maybe some films are sending out a fairy tail messages about mens and womens roles but they are fairy tails and many have been told for hundreds of years, is this perhaps looking a bit too far into things? Like everything these days people are looking for the hidden meaning or conspiracy.

Another really interesting point was about Disney land and the master planned community, Celebration Town in Florida, also not surprisingly set up by Disney. A perfect man made town, a real life fairy tail. Our lecturer likened it to the film 'The Truman show' where the main character seems to be living this idyllic life in the perfect town, but little does he know its all fake because he's living in a soap.

It seems that Disney have a bit of an obsession with the perfect and it surprises me that anyone would want to live in such a prescribed, set like place. I have a complete aversion to this after growing up in a small village where people strived to create there own little Dibley. For example a few months ago the council decided to treat us with some new lamp posts. After thousands were spent and the new lamp posts were in, there  was an uproar that these were not in keeping with the historic buildings and the council were harassed into ripping them out for mock Victorian lamp posts. Whats funny is this small village probably wouldn't have even had lamp posts in Victorian times. The image of the perfectly preserved olden days village is fake. These villagers are doing exactly what Disney does. It reminds me of the lyric in the song 'One God', by The Beautiful South. "The world is turning Disney but theres nothing you can do, were trying to walk like giants but we're wearing Pluto shoes".
 I still don't like Disney but not because i believe its going to corrupt our children but because its just a bit...Disney!