[Jafaria]

[Meesh]

I think it's too lighthearted a subject to find it sad, really - especially since she doesn't actually exist.

*Bows down to the queen of mamluking threads*

[A Whole New World]

Silly aritcle,black little girls don't need a black Princess to like the Princesses,a black little girl can like which Princess she wants,so only Arabian girls can like Jasmine? only Native American little girls can like Pocahontas? no they don't,and let's not forget that we have Tiana but I think that the only (Or main) reason that they made her movie and her character is to add a black Princess to the line.
Oh,and:

[APK]

[Syera]

[Hippsodeth]

True. I feel sorry for a younger friend of mine whose mother wouldn't let her see What a Girl Wants. WTF? "Well, her mother was in a rock band....and....they....kissed." OMFG, woman. Your daughter is 12. She watches stuff with people kissing and listens to rock music all the time. I know you meant, "The main character was born before her parents were officially married," but *meeeeeeep* - so was your daughter!

Back to Dumbo.

1) Oh yeah, that's just stupid that people would yell about child abuse over something like that.

2) So...no watching 101 Dalmations, while we're at it?

3) Hah hah, you don't know how much I love the 1982 version of Annie. I've played Pepper onstage in Roseanne Sorentino's style. The Disney version butched everything. How is it more child-friendly to watch Rooster slash a knife into Annie's picture and talk about murder than it is to watch Miss Hannigan be a slush and attempt to stop murder?

4) I never thought of the crows as black. But again, I haven't seen Dumbo in eons. People could scream about that, but I'd still snicker.

Why do people pick at TV and movies so much, anyway? "Zomg violence will destroy our kids!" <--- I assume your kids have *lives?*

[AmethystFae]

No no no. There's no contraversy with that, it just makes me cry.
But the movie has a list of other contraversial issues, and maybe you'll laugh, or just shake your head when I point them out.

1) Child abuse ~ When Mrs. Jumbo spanks one of the boys who was teasing Dumbo.
2) Cruelty to animals ~ The scene directly following the forementioned scene.
3) Chemical dependency ~ Dumbo and Timothy got wasted after the scene where they visited Mrs. Jumbo. (when the clowns poured beer into the water.) And then we come to the scene with the pink elephants, which were halucinations enduced by alcahol.
4) Racism ~ the scene with the crows. I'm surprised if nobody screamed about that.

As I mentioned before, these aren't problems ~I~ have with the movie, but it's the same types of things people pick out of other movies and TV.

~Hikaru

[Hippsodeth]

*hasn't seen Dumbo in ages*
What's the potential controversy about him seeing his mother locked up?

[AmethystFae]

Ick! I just get so nausious when the subject of Raven Simone is brought up. And BTW, when talkint about her, I usually refer to her as Raven [something else that starts with S.]

Oh, I saw Song of the South a couple of weeks ago, and I didn't have a problem with it. Of course, some people might argue that it's because I'm white, but I can usually put myself in other people's shoes regarding these things. BTW, was there much contraversy over Dumbo? I mean, I hear more bellyaching about the Disney Princesses, and I could list off the problems one might have with Dumbo, but I've never heard them from anybody else. And for the record, I liked Dumbo, but I can never watch the scene where he goes to visit his mother.

~Hikaru

[Emmlei]

[Syera]

I dunno... remember the Muses?

[Emmlei]

I'm optimisitic. I feel the writers will create a well-rounded and original character that won't follow stereotypes. I think bck to Sweet from Atlantis, he was pretty well rounded and one of my faves.

[Hippsodeth]

Side characters don't necessariily have to be stereotypes. Main characters tend to be moreso. Since sidekicks (generally) are more annoying and one sided, I'd kill the television if your "good chance" becomes reality.
I have this bad image of Raven as some African princess going, "OH SNAP!" and Kyla saying, "You tell 'em, girl!"

[APK]

[Hippsodeth]