And for that matter, it's a Disney movie, you're right, in which case representation shouldn't matter, since it's a kids movie.
Excuse me? Why on Earth do you think equal representation shouldn't matter just because it's a children's movie? It most certainly matters, in fact, even more so for children.
Let me tell you a little story about a boy named Tynan. Tynan is a 1st grade student that I met while student teaching last year who happens to be black. During free time, we could chat and play games and stuff like that. I was wearing a Captain America shirt that day, and he happened to like it and brought up The Avengers. So we talked about it for a while before he turns to his teacher and asks "Ms., why aren't any of the superheroes black?"... What was she supposed to say? She nervously said "Well, there just aren't any," and he got a really sad look in his eyes. I said "But there could be," trying to cheer him up, but he said "Then why aren't there any?". I then pulled out my phone and introduced him to Static Shock, the only black superhero I could think of at the moment. His face lit up. "Static Shock is so cool!" he said about three or four times. Static Shock is now his favorite superhero and his favorite show, and his mother contacted me through email a few months later to thank me for introducing it to him.
There's also my friend's little sister Jocelyn, who is half black half Mexican. Her favorite Princesses are Cinderella and Ariel. She constantly says things like "I wish I had lighter skin like Ariel" and "I wish I had beautiful blonde hair like Cinderella". She is seven years old.
Seven. And she is already insecure about herself. You know what what at the top of her Christmas list? Hair dye. She is seven years old. Little girls should not be worrying about this kind of thing.
Equal representation is important because children of color need to see themselves and their own races represented or they will grow up feeling inferior and insignificant. They may even grow up thinking things like you're only beautiful if you're white.
Even with Disney's racist past, I'm not calling
Frozen racist. But the past three or four Disney movies have had an all-white cast, and Disney failed to include POC. It's all just more and more white people.
This is a huge lack of representation.
I am fed up with your blatant ignorance. You have no
idea what it's like, so just shut up.
