Disney is a Farce
Childhood is innocence. Young children with their impressionable minds are shaped by what they’re exposed to as they grow up. It is movies like Pocahontas and Aladdin that are incredibly misleading and set poor foundations for children to build their knowledge upon because of the raging number of historical inaccuracies littering the plots of the fairytales. Some of the inaccuracies were blatant stupidity, like having Ratcliffe planting the flag of the United Kingdom in 1607, when no such thing existed at the time. Others were more complex and involved the warping of history and time, like the grave misinterpretation of Pocahontas’ true age, name, and motive.
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First of all, Pocahontas’ name isn’t Pocahontas. Her real name was Matoaka. Also, the occurrence of her meeting and saving John Smith from being clubbed to death by her father are zero to none. She would have been 11 or 12 at the time John Smith came to the colony of Jamestown, and the romance played upon by Disney only would’ve occurred if Smith was a class one child molester. The story told by Smith about his rescue by “Pocahontas” was only recounted 17 years later, but strangely not in a log he kept while spending the winter in the royal colony. Hypothetically, even if Matoaka had tried to save John Smith, what sway over the Powhatan chief would a young girl actually have, daughter or not? Regarding Aladdin, it wasn’t acceptable at the time for women to be as obstinate as she nor as independent and strong-minded. Her portrayal does not at all fit the stereotypical Arabian woman in what would’ve been Iraq. The female outfits, however, I can say seemed fairly accurate, depending on when Aladdin actually occurred. If I was Ibn Battuta traveling through that part of Arabia, I also would’ve been appalled by the dress of the women, considering the usual stands of modesty. For both Pocahontas and Jasmine, it’s also unlikely that either of them would’ve had a waistline the size of their neck because women of that time that were overly thin were seen as undesirable and
Childhood is innocence. Young children with their impressionable minds are shaped by what they’re exposed to as they grow up. It is movies like Pocahontas and Aladdin that are incredibly misleading and set poor foundations for children to build their knowledge upon because of the raging number of historical inaccuracies littering the plots of the fairytales. Some of the inaccuracies were blatant stupidity, like having Ratcliffe planting the flag of the United Kingdom in 1607, when no such thing existed at the time. Others were more complex and involved the warping of history and time, like the grave misinterpretation of Pocahontas’ true age, name, and motive.
Little girls should know growing up that yes, although their princess …show more content…
First of all, Pocahontas’ name isn’t Pocahontas. Her real name was Matoaka. Also, the occurrence of her meeting and saving John Smith from being clubbed to death by her father are zero to none. She would have been 11 or 12 at the time John Smith came to the colony of Jamestown, and the romance played upon by Disney only would’ve occurred if Smith was a class one child molester. The story told by Smith about his rescue by “Pocahontas” was only recounted 17 years later, but strangely not in a log he kept while spending the winter in the royal colony. Hypothetically, even if Matoaka had tried to save John Smith, what sway over the Powhatan chief would a young girl actually have, daughter or not? Regarding Aladdin, it wasn’t acceptable at the time for women to be as obstinate as she nor as independent and strong-minded. Her portrayal does not at all fit the stereotypical Arabian woman in what would’ve been Iraq. The female outfits, however, I can say seemed fairly accurate, depending on when Aladdin actually occurred. If I was Ibn Battuta traveling through that part of Arabia, I also would’ve been appalled by the dress of the women, considering the usual stands of modesty. For both Pocahontas and Jasmine, it’s also unlikely that either of them would’ve had a waistline the size of their neck because women of that time that were overly thin were seen as undesirable and