danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:
“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]
It’s wonderful how all...classically ‘good’ characters in
Truth. Disney confuses the fuck out of me sometimes…
What’s weird about this movie to me is that the Sultan is 100% willing to force his daughter to marry someone and yet...
this is dumb, Jafar is made to look mean and Aladdin all soft and nice, its not a battle of races but of GOOD vs EVIL,...