once upon a time, in Japan…. *white characters*
this takes place in Africa… *white characters*
our story starts in the Middle East… *white characters*
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Disney fans to avoid
The hair color equals diversity fan:
Look at all the hair colors. There's a blonde, a brunette, and a red head! So much diversity!
The it wouldn't be accurate fan:
Stop complaining, there are like four princesses of color and you want more. That would be historically inaccurate.
The I wish there were more white princesses that looked like me fan:
I wish that more blonde haired a blue eyed princesses because I can't relate to any of the other white ones.
In Disney’s Pocahontas, she could talk to trees and animals and she could even understand the wind; not because Native peoples were considered some type of super-human, powerful group but because they were perceived as subhuman. She could talk to animals because she was considered to be an animal, herself.
it is a silly line in a kids movie it doesn't mean u are oppressed ok?
Asked by Anonymous
Do you think Disney films bore no influence on millions of ignorant people? If the only times a person sees “Indians” being depicted are racist, dehumanizing depictions what other way would the viewer see the Indians as? If your only exposure to an entire diverse race are featured in Disney films, and other various forms of media, how can the viewer care about this group that is portrayed as subhuman? And even if no one took it seriously how does that make it okay?
The Indian is cunning but not intelligent.
Would you think it racist that I don't consider Disney's Pocahontas to be the first "American" Disney Princess? Pocahontas was here before America and I think to label her the "American princess" is to erase her of her culture and ethnicity, especially so by giving her the Euro-centric title of "Princess". This is something largely debated in the Disney fandom. Personally, I consider Tiana to be Disney's first American princess, but as a non-native, I'm afraid my opinion sounds racist.
Asked by Anonymous
I have thought about this too. Pocahontas, historically, was not a princess. But I often see the term princess used to describe all of the disney women, including non-princess characters like Jane, Esmeralda, Mulan, Megara, Alice, etc. So if you consider all Disney female characters to be given the title of Princess, then one should not exclude Pocahontas, but if you are only listing actual Princess characters then she is not one. I call all Disney’s female characters to be princesses, but that is just my opinion.
Pocahontas{Photo}
Before anyone gets upset, I wanted to know what the heroines would look like if they looked a little more like me. I have dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin, and my favorite color is blue, so all the heroines I edit to look like that have nothing to do with my views.
If you still get upset, please click here. Know, though, that I’m discussing two different arguments on representation in this tag. Keep in mind which series you’re looking at.
The real Pocahontas was a little girl whose kidnapping and rape was justified on the grounds that her husband “civilized” her and erased her cultural and racial identity.
And you REALLY can’t see how this might be hurtful
SERIOUSLY
You cannot claim “creative freedom” while stealing and altering someone else’s artwork, in an attempt to justify your racist actions.
anotherfallingworld: <– I am looking at you
The Princess and the Frog{Photo}
Before anyone gets upset, I wanted to know what the heroines would look like if they looked a little more like me. I have dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin, and my favorite color is blue, so all the heroines I edit to look like that have nothing to do with my views.
If you still get upset, please click here. Know, though, that I’m discussing two different arguments on representation in this tag. Keep in mind which series you’re looking at.
Nooooooo. No. Nope. Wrong. Bad. Shame on you. What the fuck do you think you’re doing? This is not right. No one needs to see what Tiana, or ANY black character, looks like with white skin. This is just so fucking insulting on so many levels. Whitewashing black characters is and always will be fucked up. Horrid, wretched shame on you.
She couldn’t take the white girl from the movie and relate to her? She just had to whitewash the ONLY Black princess there is?
Your logic is shit OP. You are a greedy, racist fucktruck who should remove themselves from the internet and possibly the planet.
ay dios mio i dont even know
whAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS EDIT
WHY DID THEY WHITEWASH TIANA WHAT THE HECK
I DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS WHITE FANS OF DISNEY ARE PERFORMANCE ART
WOULD YOU GUYS SHUT UP! ALL OF HER EDITS OF PRINCESS ARE LIKE THIS, BLUE EYES, BLONDE HAIR, BLUE DRESS. SHE JUST WANTS TO SEE THEM IF THEY LOOKED LIKE HER.
k but she’s still racist
and to be honest if your first instinct to some white girl whitewashing the ONLY black princess in the disney princess line is to defend her and not point out the small army of blonde white blue eyed chicks that are waaaay too common in the entire franchise
you might wanna check your own brain too because that’s some racist thinking too
sigh, ngl followers, I always grimace when I see someone who’s a blatant homestuck fan in posts like these because godDAMN, does that fandom have it’s own racist bullshit it has to work through. It’s just sad.
As usual, the poc retards on Tumblr must badger someone because, god forbid they edit the skin color of a character. Honestly, I don’t get what the big deal is. The OP just changed how the character looked to see what she would look like with white skin. Who cares!!! This doesn’t make her a racist person. Look how many people change white characters and turn them into other races and no one cares. Seriously guys, grow the fuck up. Also to the people saying that Disney is full of mostly white characters need to think for a moment. Do you know why Disney has a lot of white characters???? Disney mainly uses European fairy tails and most of the characters are based in times where the black population of Europe was very small. Also some of you dip shits don’t quite realize that the Disney movies made during the times of Walt Disney had very few black characters for one main reason. Walt Disney was a racist and a closet Nazi. Now I know you 13 year old kids on Tumblr who will get butt hurt over this, but seriously, in the real world, no one will give a fuck about how you feel about this.
26 year old adult here telling you that devaluing the feelings of someone, being affected by racism, because of their age is wrong. A person’s opinion is not invalid based upon their age.
This image promotes the whitewashing in the media, white supremacy, and racism, whether she intended it or not. People of color are not equally represented in the media, much less in Disney films; altering the only Black Disney princess is not creative, it is racism. One cannot hide behind creativity when stealing another person’s artwork.
You have tried to silence and dismiss the opinions of people of color who are affected by acts of racism, including white washing. You have told them that people do not care. Perhaps you do not care, which is not something to feel proud of, but people should care. Also, using the R-word as in insult is cruel and ablist. Please, reflect on what you have promoted here.
talking snowmen aren’t historically accurate
yeah but they’re white so no one cares
XD
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stop white princesses 2014
Disney makes a film that takes place on the African continent; all human characters in the film are white.
People go on about how Disney didn’t have pocs in Brave or Tangled, or Frozen because “it wouldn’t be historically realistic” (even though that has been disproven time and again.) But The Emperor’s New Groove managed to work in two white people in pre-colonial Mesoamerica for no logical reason whatsoever. So this argument needs to stop.
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I’m seriously so done with people bitching about Frozen. It’s a Danish fairy tale, the lead character is going to be white with blond hair and blue eyes.
“Why didn’t they make a movie about a different fairy tale???” I don’t know, because this is a good fairy tale maybe?
And guess what, it is…
Sigh, alright, here we go again.
- How can you argue that Disney wanted to stay true to The Snow Queen when Frozen diverged so WILDLY from the source material that it is not even recognizable anymore?
- There are similarities in the faces of old Disney movies because the old characters were modeled off of actual celebrities. Aurora and Anita are both meant to resemble Helene Stanley. Alice and Wendy are both meant to resemble Kathryn Beaumont. Peter is modeled off his voice actor, Bobby Driscoll, with the result that if you look at pictures of Bobby as a child, you will see Peter Pan right away. Disney liked to do this thing were he treated his characters like they were being played by actual actors. Snow White is the exception, and notice how she looks completely different from, say, Ariel and Belle (both based on Sherri Stoner). (Pocahontas is modeled off of Irene Bedard. Lady Tremaine and Maleficent are both supposed to be Eleanor Audley. None of these things have anything to do with a limitation in animation. I dare you to look at Eilonwy and Wendy and tell me they look remotely similar.)
- If Disney Co. can make Hans, Flynn, and Kristoff look like completely different people, there’s no reason Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna all have to look the same. (Although the Anna/Elsa resemblance is understanable, they are sisters.)
- Did you even read the original Snow Queen fairy tale? Because at least one of the main characters was a Lapp (Saami) woman. You know indigenous Scandinavians are not actually white, right?
- Here’s something else you probably don’t know: The original Aladdin story takes place in China. Yep. Go read 1,001 Nights and you’ll be really surprised. If Disney can turn traditionally Chinese characters into Arab characters, why can’t they turn traditionally white characters into non-white characters? Is there a double standard here wherein (a) only non-white narratives are allowed to be altered, and (b) only non-white characters need to be justified by the narrative? Notice Cinderella & co all take place in fantasy worlds without a specific location. Well, so does Frozen. (Or can you really point out Arendelle on a world map?) Frozen does not take place in our world. The main character quite literally could have had blue, gray, or green skin. There is no reason these characters had to be the same white people we see every other day. So when Disney opts for more of the same, the question is…”Why?”
Seems like you’re just arguing white is the “default” when it’s not. White people are only 9% of the global population…and yet they’re a good 97% of what we see on our TV screens. A minority is being treated as a majority. Even in the US, where Disney first started and where whites are a majority, 40% of the population is not white. 13.1% = black, 16.9% = Latino, 5.1% = Asian, 2.4% = biracial, 1.4% = Native American/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian. Almost half the population is not white. Why aren’t these people on our screens? There is a problem with this. Don’t pretend there isn’t.
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