And if you belive that, The Mouse has already won.
It’s been mentioned already – just about every rational refutation to the OP already has – but perhaps placing it in a real life context might help.
Don’t much care for labels, but as a loosely defined atheist, I don’t have many kind things to say about organized religion, especifically, the RCC, which is the one I am most familar with. My own personal “Disney” if you will, and likely just as pervasive and more, in the overall scheme of things. Throw in a twelve year old son, and I think we have a reasonably apt analogy.
Now, instead of shielding my son form the “evils” of Catholism, I have chosen a different path – I simply answer his questions on this topic as honestly and comprehesibly as I can, always trying to take his maturity level into consideration. Obviously, our conversations today, are not the same they were five years ago. However, there has been one constant theme all along, and that is the fact that I always make it a point to end these conversations with an unequivocal statement: “Ultimately, it is you that will have to make your mind up on these matters. All I ask is that you weigh the evidence presented by all sides and come to your own conclusions.” If my son wants to end up becoming a priest, so be it – it’s his life to live, all I hope and work for, is that he becomes a good person. Unlike Raelians, I am not looking for a clone.
So, despite my personal views on the matter, which, as I’ve mentioned before, I make as clear as possible, there are no bans of any kind in my household – other than what I consider age appropiate.
Obviously, it is none of my bussiness how you decide to raise your child, but as others have mentioned numerous times, despite your protestations it is you that has brought this issue to the fore. And I have yet to read anything remotely approaching sound reasoning in your dogmatic treatment of the Disney Corporation. You just might want to consider the ill-effects that such an overbearing attitude might have on on your progeny in the long run – and not Disney.
I do wish all of you well, but I don’t think, from what I’ve read here, that you’ve thought this one through in coherent fashion. In any event, I’d love to hear your thoughts again in five or six years time. Because, for the time being, we’ll just have to disagree. Strongly.
You nailed it on the head, she doesn’t even sound qualified to have a child. Likely a member of some anti-Disney cult.
I have always prided myself on the clarity of my writing, but if you believe I have said that lee is unfit to bear children and a possible cultist then I must re-evaluate my opinion of myself.
No one is a member of a cult, holy shit people. I don’t like Disney much either; I certainly wouldn’t purchase anything Disney for my child. Well, maybe Alice in Wonderland, but only after they could read the book for themselves. And the Black Cauldron for Halloweens. 
Honestly, Disney is more bland and unappealing to me than most prime time television shows. I never liked them as a child, either. There was nothing magical there. The stories were just mostly uninteresting and dull.
Disney had to compete with the park system, my own yard, my pets, my books, Transformers, and GI Joe… no way that was going to happen. I watch Disney movies now and I just feel… really let down. Like I want that hour and a half back.
If someone buys them for my (hypothetical) kid, so be it, I guess. But I will definitely request “No Disney” and I won’t encourage or purchase it myself.
Just don’t like them; they’ve never demonstrated, to me, that they deserve my money or attention, and we tend to raise children in our own image.
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An extreme amount of sarcasm was weaved into my post, as implied by the “You nailed it on the head”, followed by “she doesn’t even sound qualified to have a child”, which you hadn’t even referenced. I then followed up with the absurd comment “Likely a member of some anti-Disney cult”. The ridiculousness of my statement was intended as an analogy to illustrate the preposterousness lifestyle of the OP’s avowal.
I don’t see a problem with not having any Disney stuff in the house. Disney movies are not an integral part of raising a child. I do think it would be a problem if when the kid was a teenager he/she was forbidden to go to Disney movies with their friends.
What about movies that are merely distributed by Disney? I think Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are distributed by Disney and those are two of my favorite movies of all time.
Well, just for future reference, if you are going to have a dramatic shift in tone in your posts you might not want to do it in the middle of a sentence. It is confusing.
What “dramatic shift”?
Between the two clauses of your first sentence. Don’t make me break it down for you, I’m sure I’ve bored everyone enough already.
I don’t think that lee owes anyone an explanation of why she doesn’t want Disney-related items given to her child.
On the otherhand, it is natural for those of us who haven’t thought about it much, one way or the other, to wonder why the ban.
But lee, you really don’t have to declare “no Disney” in a belligerent way, do you? Why not be pleasant but firm?
It is possible that I am totally misinterpreting what this is all about. I haven’t looked closely at the original thread and don’t particularly want to.
As for me, the first books that I read were Disney books. I still have them over half a century later. And on the morning of my fiftieth birthday, I awoke to a helium baloon of Mickey tied to the end of my bed.
But if I had had a child of my own, I would have considered getting rid of the television set.
To each his own.
I’m confident you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Well of course, but don’t thin that’s the question here.
The reason, I think, is pure numbers. Ask a ninth grade class about Disney. Sure, some of them may not know much, but probably not. And the ones who don’t will be noticed, if not mocked, because Disney, like it or not, is a common experience.
Ask the same group about god. More than half, I bet, won’t believe in any god, and those who do will have stories that stretch from one extreme to another. Nobody’s story is the same.
We live in a godless America (despite what the skewed surveys say). Disney is everywhere.
And I am confident that you have poor reading and writing skills.
In context, the two clauses of your sentence “You nailed it on the head, she doesn’t even sound qualified to have a child” cannot coherently be interpreted as being both serious or both sarcastic. The only way it makes the slightest bit of sense is if one clause was serious and one was sarcastic. So unless you’re admitting to composing complete nonsense there was a dramatic shift in tone between the two clauses.
You have now received a free writing lesson. Go forth and sin no more.