Disneyland is the latest battleground in the cancel culture war after a new ride was deemed problematic over Prince Charming kissing Snow White "without consent".
The California theme park reopened after pandemic lockdowns with the revamped "Snow White’s Enchanted Wish" ride featuring an animatronic recreation of the fabled smooch.
In a review of the new ride for SFGate.com, the outlet’s managing editor Katie Dowd, and contributor Julie Tremaine, wrote that the kiss should be removed like other "problematic scenes from rides like Jungle Cruise and Splash Mountain’.
"Haven’t we already agreed that consent in early Disney movies is a major issue? That teaching kids that kissing, when it hasn’t been established if both parties are willing to engage, is not OK?" they wrote.
"It’s hard to understand why the Disneyland of 2021 would choose to add a scene with such old fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do to a woman."
Disney announced earlier this year that it would redesign The Jungle Cruise to replace the "Trader Sam" character, a salesman of shrunken heads. Splash Mountain, meanwhile, was being overhauled to remove stereotypes. The company has been contacted for comment.
The SFGate.com story quickly went viral as critics and defenders seized on the review as either an example of the left-wing cancel culture mob ripping apart history or the right wing’s latest obsession after Dr Seuss (which ended publication of insensitive books) and Mr Potato Head (dropping the gendered "Mr".)
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The California theme park reopened after pandemic lockdowns with the revamped "Snow White’s Enchanted Wish" ride featuring an animatronic recreation of the fabled smooch.
In a review of the new ride for SFGate.com, the outlet’s managing editor Katie Dowd, and contributor Julie Tremaine, wrote that the kiss should be removed like other "problematic scenes from rides like Jungle Cruise and Splash Mountain’.
"Haven’t we already agreed that consent in early Disney movies is a major issue? That teaching kids that kissing, when it hasn’t been established if both parties are willing to engage, is not OK?" they wrote.
"It’s hard to understand why the Disneyland of 2021 would choose to add a scene with such old fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do to a woman."
Disney announced earlier this year that it would redesign The Jungle Cruise to replace the "Trader Sam" character, a salesman of shrunken heads. Splash Mountain, meanwhile, was being overhauled to remove stereotypes. The company has been contacted for comment.
The SFGate.com story quickly went viral as critics and defenders seized on the review as either an example of the left-wing cancel culture mob ripping apart history or the right wing’s latest obsession after Dr Seuss (which ended publication of insensitive books) and Mr Potato Head (dropping the gendered "Mr".)
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