>>Later, I just forgot about Disney completely, until those two boring years when our youngest was watching Disney channel - that's about how long it took her to see what's wrong and shun it. Just another money grabbing corporation, nowadays. That Andersen guy was a moron, who didn't know he should write sequels to his stories, so they had. Phew.
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>Are you sure your youngest didn't just 'grow out of' the Disney shows? :o) Sure it's a money grabbing corporation, but it's an organization that makes wonderful children's movies. What did you rather your child watch? Terminator movies? :o)

All in good time. I'd have worried if she hadn't grown out of it. She turned out to be quite a geek - carrying the altogether version of The Guide to school, knowing Eddie Izzard's lines by heart, having a brief fling with J-rock, now watching mostly Japanese stuff anyway, reading a lot, and there were few music titles where our tastes matched (Dresden Dolls, Noir Desir, Beatles and a lot of ex-Yu rock).

As for "wonderful movies", maybe what was made while the old man was alive. Somewhere around the "Lion king" they turned the tables - the unashamedly imperial story, with not one character disputing the divine rights of the ruler (from what I've read - I wouldn't watch it no matter what CGI pyrotechnics they had in there). The TV being two steps away from my monitor I had to watch a few dozen episodes of whatever they were running, and that was pure propaganda. I'd have to watch them again to be able to point out what exactly was wrong, but the general message was "stay what you are, stay where you belong (and don't care whose belonging you are)" (for girls, mostly; boys were supposed to have careers). And there wasn't a single normal looking face, they all had frontpage (including makeup) quality, perfect teeth, and nobody was fat (unless important for the plot). The nicism as a special form of stereotyping.