Two heroes of two Disney+ entries have taken to twerking as a way to inspire little girls. Does that symbolize the problem with Disney+ lately?
Let’s get something straight: twerking is not dancing. The rhythmic lifting and dropping of one’s derriere is intended to outright mimic a sex act. The Charleston it is not. And the corollary to twerking on the men’s side would be pelvic thrusting. I’m not going to explain why as it’s too obvious.
Funny, then, that I have never seen any of Disney’s male heroic characters start doing pelvic thrusts as if it’s some sort of respectable dance. Funny that they’ve never done it with some other dude and we’ve all been asked to laud the valor and value of pelvic thrusting. I hope we never are because it would be stupid. And it would inspire our young men and boys to act like a bunch of Neanderthals. So we should avoid that. Once again, it’s beyond obvious.
So why does Disney suddenly think it’s a worthy thing to have heroic females simulating a sex act? What exactly is this achieving other than a debasing of respect for women? Having the characters you want little girls to aspire to be out there performing a move that came out of stripping just strikes me as less-than-civilized.
Let’s look at the two big examples:
Here’s the protagonist of Turning Red, a movie for minors, defeating her mother by simulating a sex act. The protagonist is either at the very edge of puberty or prepubescent.
And here’s a less impressive CGI display of a giant green superhero, who is supposed to be an amazing and brilliant attorney, doing the same.
Hint to Disney writers and Disney executives:
You don’t defeat your mother by twerking in her face. You get grounded for a month in real life as a thirteen-year-old. And you don’t celebrate as an attorney who passed the bar by twerking with a client. You get fired from your firm for acting like a middle school gross girl.
And more importantly, if you’re wondering why your Disney+ domestic numbers are stagnant, this is it. Families don’t want their little girls looking up to this crap. At least, not competent and well-balanced families. But if appealing to dysfunction and behavior that leads to less success is what you want, good luck getting more consumers to buy into it.
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