#also the remakes now and newer stories are just obliterating romance all together

[marciabrady]

it's wild to me that modern critics have brainwashed so many people into thinking true love, as presented in the classic princess movies, is toxic. we go from snow white's prince calling their love "constant and true" and never giving up on his search for the lost princess throughout endless seasons and forests aimlessly until he finds her, charming tearing apart the entire kingdom when all he had was one slipper that had been left behind because he couldn't imagine a life without cinderella, and phillip fighting a literal fire breathing dragon for aurora.

to appear more "realistic", and effectively more sensible i guess??? disney made the couples afterward decidedly spikey. beast and belle are nothing if not enemies to lovers with their courtship starting with belle literally giving her life to the beast so her father would be spared, jasmine and aladdin have a lot of friction over his lies, i don't even want to get started on john smith and pocahontas nor meg working for the literal devil against hercules's best interest...but that wasn't enough and they continued to suck anything appealing out of these love stories until we reach naveen and tiana trying to kill each other in a swamp as frogs and not liking each other and even being visibly repulsed at one another, rapunzel inflicting physical violence upon flynn with her frying pan in a "cute!" and "quirky" way, and hans being used as a plot device to make us believe a prince charming for us doesn't exist which ends in anna punching him.

and...it's that astounding these bad faith criticisms have been given so much weight and power that they're literally now effectively tearing apart true love in these films to the point where it's now just bickering and physical violence with straight couples that have no chemistry but gay people still don't have a single explicitly "out" couple/storyline :)

#progress #i swear romance is becoming obliterated while gay people are just trying to fight to exist and for basic rights #i feel like there gets to be a point where certain groups are so privileged that their is actually reductive #like we went from true love to enemies to lovers to str8 ppl who don't even like each other and have no business being together #AND THAT IS PROGRESS?? #while gay people literally still don't have a single hting #and this is 2022 #i'm sick of hearing about the 9th first gay pixar character that always ends up being a monster with 2 lines #also the remakes now and newer stories are just obliterating romance all together #and it just all rings of homophobia to me #i will never trust linda woolverton feminists #but also it just all comes across as like. a corporate person devoid of creativity that's convinced love doesn't exist and has no value #and feels they need to inflict that messaging on everyone else