It's weird watching them with adult eyes, like Ursula's song, for instance. Holy hell, it's really explicit and sexist, she truly is a villain. O_O
Like, when I was a kid I never realized the people in Aladdin were Muslims. I was convinced they were a fantasy people who sort of acted like Muslims but weren't actually... anything. After all, almost no one wears a veil, and they don't have prayer mats, or muezzins, or anything. Not to mention the Italian dubbing never mentioned Arabian nights, it was way more generic. So it was quite a shock re-watching it as a grown-up, and realizing it was quite offensive.
I think I have my parents to 'blame' for this. When I watched Bambi as a child, I thought the skunk was a girl, and that she fell in love with another girl skunk. After all she was called 'Flower' in the Italian dubbing! My parents told me I was right, and even bought me a skunk plushie that I called Fiore, and was a girl in love with a girl, and I never thought there was anything weird with it. Until I re-watched it a couple of years ago, and realized my parents spent my childhood bending over backwards trying to build a better world for me. ^^
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Like, when I was a kid I never realized the people in Aladdin were Muslims. I was convinced they were a fantasy people who sort of acted like Muslims but weren't actually... anything. After all, almost no one wears a veil, and they don't have prayer mats, or muezzins, or anything. Not to mention the Italian dubbing never mentioned Arabian nights, it was way more generic. So it was quite a shock re-watching it as a grown-up, and realizing it was quite offensive.
I think I have my parents to 'blame' for this. When I watched Bambi as a child, I thought the skunk was a girl, and that she fell in love with another girl skunk. After all she was called 'Flower' in the Italian dubbing! My parents told me I was right, and even bought me a skunk plushie that I called Fiore, and was a girl in love with a girl, and I never thought there was anything weird with it. Until I re-watched it a couple of years ago, and realized my parents spent my childhood bending over backwards trying to build a better world for me. ^^