People are always looking for something to be offended about. I still remember watching some documentary in a psychology class where a bunch of people tried to tell us all about how racist/sexist/etc Disney was, and it's like "okay, yeah, some of these are valid. The rest of them just tell me you have too much bloody time on your hands and we really need to find a way to amend the situation asap."
They listed this movie as teaching little girls to be in abusive relationships and I still don't understand it. I mean, Belle turns down Gaston after he treats her like garbage, actively rejects the Beast more than once-- even though doing so could very easily put her life in danger-- for no other reason than he's RUDE (they're civil when she's just a prisoner, it's only when he makes demands/loses his temper that she retaliates)-- doesn't give him the time of day until he starts to change his attitude a bit, and from that people took away that little girls should date abusive men? What?
Very true. When people start pulling on a thread, they can get caught up and keep going until the whole sweater is gone. To be honest- in most cases I don’t think it’s that people are too easily offended- I think that it shows two very human behaviors. The first is finding a voice or knowledge- synonymous with discovering ones power or agency. In the same way most toddlers use “no” frequently and often innapropriately once they learn the word- once people start being “woke” they tend to see it as having a new voice, an ability to interact in a new way with the world, and sometimes they get carried away. Likewise, when there’s an underlying desire or resentment that they didn’t have a way to express or identify, they start to compensate for years of silent suffering by being extremely vocal. There can be valid critiques within the cacophony, and not all commentary is simply “acting out,” but it is true that some times we over think things, and sometimes we overlook things we shouldn’t.
They listed this movie as teaching little girls to be in abusive relationships and I still don't understand it. I mean, Belle turns down Gaston after he treats her like garbage, actively rejects the Beast more than once-- even though doing so could very easily put her life in danger-- for no other reason than he's RUDE (they're civil when she's just a prisoner, it's only when he makes demands/loses his temper that she retaliates)-- doesn't give him the time of day until he starts to change his attitude a bit, and from that people took away that little girls should date abusive men? What?
It was envy that made him villainous more than anything else.