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dumbthingswhitepplsay: super-eklectic1: danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon: feministdisney: “It’s sad that Disney has the opportunity to educate so many people and yet many of their movies, unintentionally perhaps, serve as a platform to reinforce negative stereotypes about differnet cultural groups,” Jafar lamented, while inwardly wondering whether, perhaps, a certain gold lamp he had heard about could help him solve this problem… [for more on this, read the feminist review of Aladdin the movie here] THIS. ALL. OF. THIS. THANK YOU for making this post. you know what i never noticed that!!! oh snap!! did any arabs do the voices because i know that aladdin was voiced by a white dude don’t think so, but i can at least vouch that jasmine’s singing voice was a filipina [reading all of these reviews today so I can be more aware of stereotypes and sexism in (disney) movies]

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

super-eklectic1:

danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:

feministdisney:

“It’s sad that Disney has the opportunity to educate so many people and yet many of their movies, unintentionally perhaps, serve as a platform to reinforce negative stereotypes about differnet cultural groups,” Jafar lamented, while inwardly wondering whether, perhaps, a certain gold lamp he had heard about could help him solve this problem…

[for more on this, read the feminist review of Aladdin the movie here]

THIS.

ALL. OF. THIS.

THANK YOU for making this post.

you know what i never noticed that!!! oh snap!!

did any arabs do the voices because i know that aladdin was voiced by a white dude

don’t think so, but i can at least vouch that jasmine’s singing voice was a filipina

[reading all of these reviews today so I can be more aware of stereotypes and sexism in (disney) movies]

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    I do love Disney but this is so true. They’re getting better about it though.
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    Jafar was the only character I actually liked in that whole movie.
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    Aladdin doesn’t have very dark skin. (Especially for the climate, for someone who wears only a small vest he should be...
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    Okay, as much as I agree that is is WRONG for this to be happening, for their somewhat blatant racism (in some modern...
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    y’know i thought they all looked equally arab? idk i mean i never thought much of their designs when i watched it as a...