Leftists erase the virtues of kindness and service to others
Both the Barbie movie and the upcoming Snow White remake reveal how feminism is attacking qualities that make a society livable.
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Tag: Cinderella
Harry Styles and the death of maturity
The left’s effort to get men into women’s clothes (à la Harry Styles) is not just about gender; it’s also about stifling male maturity. Long ago, I had a friend who inadvertently married a heterosexual cross-dresser. She also found she’d married a man who couldn’t hold down a job, preferred
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Updates for my past posts about Disney princesses and Tesla
I recently wrote posts about both Disney Princesses (and their dresses) and about Tesla and other electric cars. These are a few fun updates to those posts. I wrote two posts in the past few days that have already been overtaken by events. The first post was about my disdain
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How Disney’s Cinderella sparked a long love affair with the Princess dress
If you’re wondering why, 77 years after Disney’s Cinderella was released, the Cinderella Princess dress remains popular, I’ve got the answer. I recently attended a talk at the Walt Disney Family Museum about Princess dresses. Since one of my Little Bookworms and I have a fatal weakness for Say Yes
Continue readingMovie Review: Cinderella
A word of advice if you go to see Disney’s new, live-action Cinderella: Don’t take a cynic with you. Cynics will not appreciate this sugary, beautiful confection. To them, it’s an offense at every level. You’ll note that I said “sugary,” rather than the more dismissive “saccharine.” Something that’s saccharine
Continue readingThere’s a cuckoo in the nest at the New York Times, speaking slightingly of political correctness
I love Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. I grew up watching TV repeats of the 1695 1965 version, own the DVD of the original 1957 version (with Julie Andrews), and can even sort of tolerate Whitney Houston’s 1997 version. That show had very PC, rainbow-colored casting and — the worst sin
Continue readingEuropean Fairy Tales versus American Fairy Tales — and how they affect the American psyche and the school yard bully
I love fairy tales. I’ve always loved fairy tales. Growing up, I devoured fairy tale books, with special emphasis on the Disney movies, with their beautiful princesses. My personal favorite was Disney’s Cinderella. I saw it once when I was a child and then, in a pre-video era, all I
Continue readingHappy Birthday, Walt Disney!
The great Walt Disney would have been 110 today. Here’s his and my favorite piece of Disney animation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKN_dz8YBE[/youtube]
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