anamaria does not approve
12 October, 2007
Stave off plunderers with a charming threat wearing this Disney Couture necklace! Booty hunters beware!
From the Pirates of the Caribbean “Dead Man’s Chest” collection - 14K gold plated 20″ Noose Necklace.
By Disney Couture
A “charming threat”? A noose is a fucking “charming threat”?? What kind of sheltered, privileged life must you lead to believe that a fucking noose could ever be charming?!
Disney, I officially break faith with you. You’ve had your chances to get on board with the whole not-racist thing, especially since Pirates did manage to have actual! people! of colour! in it. But then Anamaria disappeared into the ether, Tia Dalma turned out to be some crazy slutty voodoo goddess of the sea who despite her bein’ all immortal couldn’t manage to have decent dental hygiene or do more than turn into a giant pile of crabs (and wtf was with that??), the biggest group of dark-skinned people to appear in the films turn out to be cannibals who bear an utterly unsubtle resemblance to a real group of people …
You know what? You know that movie you’re working on, the one that’s supposed to finally (finally) have a Black princess? Just stop. I don’t trust you not to fuck it up and give young girls of colour round the country some kind of fucked-up complex. And I don’t believe for one second that she’ll be accepted as a “real” Princess — we tried that with Pocahontas and Mulan, remember? And yet somehow, those other two women of colour never quite make princess canon.
Ugh. My childhood is ruined.
Hat tip, Racialicious.
I must say, when I read the “booty hunters beware” I thought that was a bit *kinky* coming from Disney. And I liked the concept, being frustrated at the moment. A gold noose cock-ring on a chain struck me as being potentially useful. (I’m a red-haired scorpio: that’s my official excuse.) No argument about Disney’s ability to screw up, though. Pocahontas was not a dark tint Barbie doll, and Capt. John Smith was a REDHEAD (dammit).
Oh, Disney is always dancing along the line just this side of vanilla. I guess that’s what happens when you spend 26 hours a day locked in a studio with a bunch of other geeky people.