Anyone who has kids or grandkids is aware that Disney has been on a jihad to “diversify” their movies and tv shows. This entails replacing characters who in earlier stories were male or white or sexually normal with women and specifically non-white women and very specifically non-white, queer women. This was very noticeable in the Star Wars franchise where all the heroes are now women and all the men are either lame or evil.
But that was only the beginning. Next comes the princess movies. Apparently the irony of a character named Snow White who isn’t white was too complex for Disney. And diversity has become the marching orders going forward in the Marvel Comic Universe (MCU). So the old white male heroes like Iron Man and Captain America have been either killed off or put out to pasture and a new generation has been introduced. So we’ll be getting Black Captain America and Black Spider Man. But the most egregious example of DEI awfulness is the female Marvel superheroes. And now that innovation has born fruit, poisonous fruit. Whereas previously they produced Captain Marvel, we now have “The Marvels.” That’s blonde haired Captain Marvel joined by two diverse and empowered female heroes who battle against a female super-villain and “don’t need no men to get in their way.”
The reviews of this movie have been scathing. Apparently when you make message fiction it’s not necessary to have a coherent plot or likeable characters or even a recognizable beginning, middle and end. You just stop when the special effects guys run out of stuff.
Well, there is no need to complain about this movie. Making the Marvels was its own punishment. Based on its opening box office, the movie is already predicted to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. And all this pandering to diversity has inspired the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone to create an episode that mocks Disney’s endless crusade to artificially diversify their movies. In this episode Cartman finds himself both transformed into a diverse woman and also assuming the place of Disney’s diversifier in chief; producer Kathleen Kennedy. In this guise Cartman endlessly orders the showrunners for his movies to “put a chick in it and make it lame and gay.” Here’s the “not safe for work version.”
And now both Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger of Disney have made public statements complaining about what’s going on. Kennedy has stated that South Park is causing Disney fans to think poorly of Disney’s movies and that is causing the poor box office. She hints that legal action is forthcoming.
Iger is a little more grounded in reality. He admits that a portion of Disney’s audience really is consciously unhappy with what he calls Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion program. And he states quite openly that his solution to this situation will be to “double down” on more diversity, equity and inclusion.
You’ve got to respect his honesty. Okay. In the face of a string of movies and tv shows that because of the emphasis on unentertaining social messaging have bombed at the box office Disney is going to give us an even stronger dose of social messaging. The beatings will continue until moral improves.
This is pretty great. Disney is a corporate behemoth. They’ve had a built in cash machine tied to the American family for generations. And now they’re committing public suicide just to prove they can do it. Well, how stupid do their competition have to be. They should jump at the chance to provide these families with exactly what they used to get from Disney. Hire some decent writers who don’t hate normal people. Pay the special effects people to animate it and get rich. Give them knock-offs of all the Disney and Star Wars and Marvel stuff but without “putting a chick in it and making it lame and gay.”
There. That’s not so hard to figure out, is it?
This is great. South Park, they’ve been fighting the good fight for decades. Someone should take Dylan’s Nobel and give it to them.
Many thanks to OCF!
They really have a remarkable talent for hilariously and concisely mocking hypocrisy and delusion.
Personally, I’m waiting for the new version of Fantasia with the dancing body positive, plus sized, minority hippos.
Oh wait. That was last year’s Victoria secret ad.
That’s right, last year’s. Victoria has learned the secret that not only men are horrified by morbidly obese women (and men playing women) dressed in underwear. It disgusts women too. This year they came out with a statement that they were returning to good looking women models again. Women, especially women who don’t look like super-models don’t want to see some horribly overweight creature wearing the clothes they are thinking of buying. It creeps them out.
That was good!
Those guys are funny.