Disney to Ramp Up ‘Queerness’ of Characters in New Woke Drive
A Disney executive in charge of content has promised at a company-wide meeting that at least half of the characters in its productions will be LGBT or from racial minorities by the end of the year. MailOnline has more.
General Entertainment President Karey Burke said during a company-wide Zoom call that Disney must do more to be more inclusive, as she vowed that 50% of characters and content would be from underrepresented groups.
Meanwhile, Disney’s diversity and inclusion chief Vivian Ware said that they no longer address theme park visitors as “ladies and gentleman, boys and girls” but instead as “dreamers” and “friends”.
Burke choked up during Monday, saying the issue hit close to home because of her children.
“I’m here as the mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader,” she said.
During the same all-hands meeting, television animation executive producer Latoya Raveneau gushed about Disney’s inclusivity and boasted about “adding queerness” to shows and productions.
“Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-so-secret gay agenda,” she said. “Wherever I could I was adding queerness. No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.”
Videos from the meeting were leaked to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, who first reported them on Twitter.
The Mickey Mouse company has been roiled by protests, counter-protests and walkouts after Florida Gov. Ronald DeSantis signed the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill into law. The legislation bans teaching kids lessons on sexuality, gender identity and sexual orientation “in a manner that is not age appropriate.”
Disney employees walked out of the company headquarters last week to protest the slow response to the Florida law. Parents hit the company from the other side for what they said was pandering to liberal politics…
The company has launched a campaign called “Reimagine Tomorrow” with the goal to represent more minority groups. “By 2022, 50% of regular and recurring characters across Disney General Entertainment scripted content will come from underrepresented groups,” according to the “Reimagine” promotional material.
Disney has reportedly reinstated a gay kiss in its upcoming Toy Story spinoff Lightyear amid the criticism. Hawthorne (pictured above), a character in the film, has a relationship with another female character.
Will Disney be the latest self-inflicted victim of go woke, go broke? Can’t see pansexuality and ‘queerness’ taking off as children’s and family entertainment somehow…
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Dear God
Heterosexuality is so “yesterday”.
Yes, any fool would believe that sexual reproduction was what got us to this point.
Actually, so is being gay. That’s way too mainstream. You’ve got to be transsexual or pansexual (whatever that is) to be in with the in crowd these days.
There’s also binary and two-spirit.
My word! I’m all at sea with the latest “-uals”, “-obics”, “-itys”, “-ologies”, “-arys” and so forth. It was so simple when we went through the Seven Ages of Man, as just male and female.
Strewth, what’s two-spirit?
I’ve heard of “non-binary”, so is “binary” the opposite /related?
To be pansexual means to be sexually attracted to metal cooking utensils.
Well, that’s just not good enough, is it?
What about Tupperware, Pyrex, and pottery bowls, don’t they get a look in? And are china cups and saucers left out as well?
Equality for all kitchenware now!
Shhhhhhhh.
Don’t mention the Chinese.
Yes, when referring to any category or group, ALL variants MUST be given equal exposure. Natural history programmes, for example, about, er, dolphins are plainly discriminatory, since they ignore porcupines. And wombats. The underrepresentation of woodlice in films about dolphins is equally disturbing.
Or to the toilet?
Imagine the abuse chopsticks get, far too much like a Penis and nobody but nobody has one of those these days.
Mate I’m potsexual, I haven’t used a pan in years. But my people barely get a mention in today’s culture wars. For shame!
I feel your pan. Sorry, pain.
“she vowed that 50% of characters and content would be from underrepresented groups.”
So now the ‘underrepresented’ can be over-represented. That sounds about right.
And the previously overrepresented will become underrepresented almost overnight, forcing them to flip the policy, again and again, until the only solution is for all groups to be accurately represented – I doubt we’ll be seeing many queer or pangender characters then!
As a parent, I can see that there are plenty of adults in the creative/entertainment industry pushing our children to consider alternative gender/sexual identities, and that makes me uncomfortable. I see nothing wrong with the old-fashioned “Most people are like this, but a few are different” approach, rather than portraying all options as equally common.
Does that make me xyz-phobic? I don’t think so, but what do I know?
You only have to see British TV advertising to see were Disney are going.
Lookat this topic also from the depopulation agenda: absolutely makes sense the promotion of LGBTQIA
Cue aggravation from certain ethnic groups who still feel underrepresented compared to other groups. Will there be US Standard ethnicity quotient they can all work to?
And what of the “underrepresented” groups which this delightful lady’s policy, in all virtuousness, continues to ignore? There will always be someone whining to be given some attention. You can’t put them all on stage, you dope.
You mean white, toxically masculine males?
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
(Isaiah 5:20 ESV)
And always look on the bright side of life.
Meaningless.
Ni!
Amen, and amen.
Walt Disney Co has announced that it’s halting all business operations in Russia following similar moves by Pornhub, McDonald’s, KFC, PepsiCo & Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Russians will soon be the healthiest people in the world in both body and mind. Their president is a genius.
Yes because the poor mental and physical health of Russians isn’t the fault of the Russians themselves.
How can we get them to do the same in Britain?
Who do we need to invade to get Disney out of here?
It seems they are planning a gigantic Disneyland in Kent, opening in 2024 or 2025, and it may now be a rearguard action to turf them out.
That’s worse than discovering 33 NATO bioweapon labs.
MiniTruth approved vocab is biodefence labs. Those pathogens have vowed to only be used for good.
Not a Disneyland. It was going to be Paramount but I believe they pulled out. It’s not going ahead thanks to Jumping Siders.
Honestly, it’s on the BBC, and this time they are right.
Discovery of a protected jumping spider on the site has put a stop to that……thank God.
The Faroe Islands ought to do it. We could stop the senseless slaughter of dolphins AND ban Disney all in one deft manoeuvre.
You could ignore them instead of demanding a nanny.
To oppose lockdown and simultaneously demand a nanny is moronic.
Jockland!
😀 😀
It’s a giant amusement park as it is. A very badly run one.
But not in that bastion of freedom and Human Rights, China.
I believe Putin gave resistance against Western woke as one of his war aims.
Peter Pansexual in Never Never Gland. The Ali-gay-tor swallowing Captain Hook’s Clock. All good wholesome stuff.
Joining the Chechen infantry never looked so tempting.
If you ignore that the Chechen muftis are into younger kids…
Can’t imagine what Mr Disney is going to think of this when he thaws out
Actually he came up with talking mice and ducks. Seems normal to us know, but was anything but normal at the time.
It’s not as if much of what Disney does has ever been rooted in reality.
His first conscious thought will be the sense of being deplatformed. “Put me back in the freezer please”
He must be spinning in his fridge …
To Hell with Disney. Truly showing its real face now. Time for a damned good ignoring and defunding.
Ah, yes, cancel… sounds familiar.
Boycotting is not the same as cancelling. For instance cancelling a controversial speaker at an event means they don’t get to speak, boycotting means no one listens but they still get to speak. As we fund Disney, defunding can only be achieved by boycotting. Therefore nothing to do with cancel culture.
Clearly Disney is on a mission to confuse and depress our children. Well they ain’t getting to mine. They can eff off.
Why change “fuck” to “eff”, Hardliner? I wrote “fuck off”, I mean “fuck off”. It’s not as if I am directing it at a specific individual, is it. It can only be a profanity if it is directed at someone in particular. Otherwise, we go down a slippery slope. I need not talk about wokeness, need I?
For the subject of this article, the phrase “fuck off” is appropriate and not at all disproportionate.
I suppose a wallflower or two reported it… Ah well.
Why not just start doing animated interracial gay and tranny gangbangs and be done with it?
Seriously, that’s what most of their animators produce in their spare time and put on their Twitter accounts. With demons and bestiality in it an such like – calling it anime. When they’re not engaging in actual child porn rings with the rest of Disney’s senior management.
I’m sorry to be so graphic but that’s a literal description of the filth these people produce. Then they set up a pipeline to show it to kids and groom them into their sick, gender-bending, disease spreading lifestyles as soon as they can.
”Don’t say gay”? How about don’t be a nonce.
Actually, if people were busier literally fking each other rather than doing it figuratively through violence and wars, and other people wouldn’t care who is fking whom, the world would be a better place. But I’m afraid that promoting peaceful shagging is not really their true agenda.
Sorry, did you just say the world would be a better place if we let people “fk” kids and just didn’t care about it? That “peaceful shagging” of kids is somehow going to stop all the wars?
I’m not going to dignify that with a direct response, but I will say I think you have some soul searching to do and you shouldn’t be anywhere near children.
I said people fkin each other, as in consenting adults. The kids part came from your own sick imagination.
The kids is what the article is about and it’s what my comment was about. That was quite clear. Disney makes animated films for kids. I’m pretty sure I haven’t imagined that.
But better to comment on things you haven’t read or cared to understand than be a sicko, I suppose.
I get your points Matt. But I think rayc’s comments were generally of the “make love not war” type. Choosing this article to say it was a mistake which rayc would probably admit to, rayc?
Yeah, his comments are of that vibe except for the context of what we’re discussing and saying we shouldn’t pay attention to who’s “peacefully shagging” whom.
As if my drawing attention to the problem in question makes me a hater and we should just shut up about perverts grooming children because it means we don’t accept them when they were born that way and they just want to “peacefully shag” in any way they choose.
Nah, I’m pretty sure of myself on this one. Call me a hater all you want, these people are sick and it’s about time we called them out on it. Particularly when they don’t want to just “peacefully shag” – they want to put their sexual deviancy into children’s education and entertainment.
‘The Mickey Mouse company…’ It sure is.
No, you’re not. You’re abusing your children mentally and, if you’re allowing them to mutilate their bodies, physically. ‘Transgender’ and ‘pansexual’ are not categories with any basis in reality. They are made-up categories. Figments of your imagination. A delusion suffered by the mentally disturbed and tolerated by cowards.
Has this Burke character ever been confronted and told she is mentally ill? Has anyone loved her enough, in the true sense of ‘love,’ to tell her the truth? If they had then perhaps she’d have had the requisite love to show her own children so that they might have been spared this diabolical abuse.
Some of her children are adult and able to make their own choices. Pansexual just means “bi” as in you’d shag anything.
Deliberate mental abuse could have been involved, or it could be trauma caused by accident, or they could be perfectly fine and just wanting to experiment. Hard to judge fairly without knowing more.
The transcript says transgender and pansexual “child”. If her offspring are adults, it is strange that she would label them as “child”.
Are you suggesting that they might have worded the article in such a way to provoke the ire of those who are easily triggered by things like this?
The context and language used would suggest otherwise, but even granting that, it’s irrelevant to my point. Before they were ‘adults’ they were raised by their mother and shaped by her actions and influence. Right?
No, it doesn’t. Even if you define bisexual outside of a binary framework and in its more modern, non-categorical sense of ‘attraction to two or more genders’ it is still not ‘definitionally’ as broad as the non-categorical ‘pansexual’.
The fruitcakes often squabble over this, but it doesn’t change the fact that these non-categorical terms are not strictly synonymous.
The very act of a mother accepting and encouraging this destructive behaviour is mental abuse.
On the contrary, it’s easy to judge when you have an objective standard by which to judge.
Ah so you jumped to a conclusion without looking any deeper into it first?
Disagree. My aunt never encouraged her kid to be trans and it took quite a while for her to come to terms with it. Her kid had been rather odd since a very young age.
What did your uncle have to say about it?
Dunno haven’t spoken to him, they separated years back.
Yes, based on the context and language, I’m assuming Burke’s children are not adults. This is not ‘jumping to a conclusion’ based on no prior reasoning. But like I said, and which you’ve swerved, granting that they are adults, it’s irrelevant to my point. Before they were ‘adults’ they were raised by their mother and shaped by her actions and influence.
I never said that Burke encouraged her children to become ‘trans’ and ‘pan’ (though in this day and age I wouldn’t be surprised), rather my point was that her accepting (which, if you think about it, logically comes before encouraging and implies there’s something to accept, which informs you that I wasn’t saying she first encouraged her children to ‘become’ ‘trans’ and ‘pan’) and encouraging such destructive behaviour is mental abuse.
I guess I should check your opinion on this before getting too embroiled…
If a 19 year old child tells their parent they’re gay, is the parent guilty of mental abuse if they choose to accept this?
Ps I wasn’t intentionally swerving, I’m on my phone and running teleconfs at the same time ha.
If you mean ‘accept’ in the sense that they believe it is a legitimate way to live (even if they do not call it ‘good’ and actively encourage it), yes. They would be guilty of allowing their child to remain unchallenged (at least in the case of the parent) in their false and damaging belief/lifestyle. By failing to challenge their child they would be fortifying their mental state of ignorance, albeit from a ‘passive’ position.
But it gets worse. They would be abusing their child’s soul by failing to tell them they are sinning against God by defying his law and rebelling against the created order.
The truly loving thing to do would be to try to convince their child of their sin and need to repent.
Ah, a weirdo Bible basher, sorry I didn’t cotton on sooner. One of those “It’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” types. Not a chance in hell we’re ever going to agree… and I use that as a figure of speech of course because hell doesn’t actually exist.
1. It didn’t take long for you to cut and run.
2. Is ‘weirdo Bible basher’ the best you’ve got? The 80s is on the blower and is suing you for anachronism.
You have the maturity of a primary school child.
3. On your world view, what is a ‘weirdo’, and what is ‘wrong’ with being a weirdo?
You’re exposing your own ignorance and immaturity. My arguments are far more sophisticated than “It’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve”. Good grief.
Who says we have to agree? Are you too fragile to engage in discussion with people whose beliefs differ from yours?
Don’t be coy. Give me your best arguments if you possess any.
Oh. Have you been there?
I wasn’t attempting to insult or offend, I was just explaining how I think of you.
Not to self: Tee Ell has now just given everyone permission to call him whatever pejorative they can think of, justified by:
“I wasn’t attempting to insult or offend, I was just explaining how I think of you.”
If you feel that’s how you want to spend your time, fire away! 🙂
I wouldn’t reduce myself to your undignified level.
You just did 😉
1. You didn’t offend me. It’d take a hell of a lot more than that outdated silliness to offend me.
2. Of course you were attempting to insult/offend. If you were not attempting to insult/offend, and you honestly believe you were ‘just explaining how [you] think of me’ with no consideration of how your words might impact your interlocutor, then I would with all sincerity suggest you have a serious ‘people skills’ issue.
I was just explaining why I think we’ll never see eye to eye. I have zero respect for the idea that gay people should repent for their sins. If it offended I’m fine with that too – because I suspect you have thick enough skin to not really care what some random person on the internet thinks.
I’d call it an immature lashing out, but ultimately you cut and run rather than engage in discussion/argumentation.
And yet you’re still here…
So what if you have zero respect for this idea? What does ‘respect’ mean on your world view?
The idea’s been around for thousands of years now. Surely the meat sack crew have formulated a response to it by now?
This seems appropriate, to both MR’s ‘discussion’ with TE, and the thread topic…
AC/DC – Highway th Hell 1979 Atlantic Records
Hell is a village in Trøndelag county, Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
I stand corrected 😀
Explicit in the term ‘bi-‘ is there being only two sexes, male and female.
Heretic! Anathema!
Don’t you know there are an infinite number of ‘gender identities’? Pansexual means you are game to give it a go with all of them.
Report to the Twitter mob for a caning.
Yes, that was the point I was making, maybe I was too indirect 🙂
Caning is a punishment now?
Observe that concept of entertainment is completely disregarded by these bozos.
No one goes to the cinema to be lectured and/or bored.
So no one goes to the cinema…
Where do I place my bets on the share price of Disney dropping over the next year or two? I also don’t see Disney making much political noises in China over the CCP atrocities there. Funny, that.
What do you mean there’s some connection between wokeness and brokeness?
I think it just shows the company has totally lost touch with their paying customers.
You’re completely right. IMHO they’re spineless cowards. Going against the (huge) family audience for a handfull of woke nutbags and the CCP will hopefully backfire on them big time.
The US ‘Democratic’ Party has already started to feel the effects by doing much the same in the political sphere by saying the (lefty) state knows better than parents.
We should all vote with our wallets and avoid any new Disney material – not forgetting they own several ‘brands’ like Marvel, Lucasfilm (ugh) and now 20th Century Studios as well as Pixar (for ‘Lightyear’).
So much for the ‘new broom’ CEO Bob Chapek – he sounds awfully like the new head of the BBC Tim Davie in promising much and delivering little in reality.
Still, at least it means that the likelihood of a GOP victory (and for Ron DeSantis) at the 2024 Presidential Election as well as a wipe-out for the Dems in November’s mid-terms is further improved.
That’s assuming we’re not all wiped out in WWIII or starve/freeze to death because of the idiotic policies of our useless ‘leaders’ continue to make the current global situation worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgI2nnrnjz8
Staged or Real? Will Smith Hits Chris Rock!
AwakenWithJP
It appears that the ‘woke nutbags’ are now in charge at Disney vis: Karey Burke
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Dems try and go out with a big (nuclear) bang rather than admit defeat…
Yes, but clearly it’s the audience that’s the problem, not Disney. They just have to treble-down and keep going. I’m sure the audience will finally relent and get with the programme.
People will start to wonder which is “beauty” and which is “the beast”!
Don’t be so judgemental!
Remake Aladdin and the 40 societally oppressed redistributors?
That’s Al-genderneutral-din… if you don’t mind.
Hello Possums!
Christ.
anti
That’s an auntie?
Yes.
Phwoar! Bet thats a goer
I remember as a young man back in the ’60s a comedian on the TV saying (following the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967), “First it was illegal, now they’ve made it legal – I’m emigrating before they make it compulsory”. It took a little longer than I thought, but we’re nearly there.
Woke Disney.And wtf is pansexual? The loonies really are calling the toons.
Someone with a bizarre fetish for saucepans maybe?
🤣👍🏻
In a previous job, one of the ‘customers’ was a male who liked to have sex with washing machines (presumably a front-loader). Mercifully, I wasn’t privy to the exact details of what the act entailed.
And now you know why there is a divide between Russia and the West.
Bond will go woke too probably …
You mean it will be named after a heterosexual act?
Or Goldfingered, On Her Majesty’s Secret Cervix, The World is Not (Woke) Enough
The trans without the golden gun?
How does “under-representation” even matter in the world of fiction anyway? It’s like saying that wookies were under-represented in Star Wars – there’s only one in all of the films despite there being a whole planet of them in that ancient distant galaxy! Or that in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats”, dogs were underrepresented.
Hello… it’s FICTION, make-believe! Does Superman falsely portray reality by over-representing the human ability to fly? (I know he’s actually an alien, but there we go again – over-representation of aliens on planet Earth)
If the world of fiction and cinematography are to consist of little outside a representative portrayal of reality, then it dies a death as a medium of entertainment.
Now, now – you are assuming these people are sane.
OK Groomer.
Walt Disnae realise what will happen to his revenues.
I can’t wait for the remake of The Wind-up In The Willows.
In a strange sort of way, this doesn’t worry me too much.
Firstly, this behaviour is so far detached from the real world it is destined to collide with reality at some point.
Secondly, what drives these people to these insane policies isn’t the thing itself, it’s an unhealthy compulsion to have a mission to transform society. It won’t take long before this is too tame and they need to come up with the next thing. And they will demand that everyone submit to the next insanity. As Hannah Arendt explained so well, totalitarianism ends up devouring its own.
I’m quite happy to sit back and watch these lunatics drive each other forward into oblivion.
Disney is satanic. The entire entertainment industry is neck deep in the mire. The Foo Fighters made a movie, released February 25 this year, called Studio 666, about being possessed by demons, in which Dave Grohl kills all the band members. Then the drummer dies one month later. Get the picture?
Karma?
Except I’m a Foos fan, and am really sorry about Taylor Hawkins dying at such a young age.
If it was drugs, then having had a close call twenty years ago with drugs, he was monumentally stupid.
…
makes one want to move to Mother Russia.
The USEU is at the point of The Fall Of Rome……
I’m with you. Not only is the Russian president preserving the very conservative values which we once valued but he’s also ensured that his people will go neither hungry nor cold next winter. He has the right priorities.
Until it comes to election time. Then he goes a bit feral.
“she vowed that 50% of characters and content would be from underrepresented groups.”
Black, lesbian, disabled AND unvaccinated ???!!!
In adverts perhaps 50% of husbands should be straight white males?
It seems like it’s 0% when I glance at the propaganda box to see what’s the subject of today’s 30 minute hate .
Every TV ad now has to be mainly or all black actors. I usually complain to the companies in question and never receive a reply, so I boycott them.
I’m now barely spending anything!
And dramas are getting there too. Amazing how many black people are even in period dramas.
Bridgerton is one latest example on Netflix.
I have no idea if it’s any good, as the promos have done enough to put me off. It’s as plausible as having a drama set in pre-colonial Kenya, with half the cast being white and playing African tribal members….
Black population of the UK: 3.5%
Gay population of the UK: 3%
Looks like the under-represented group are white heterosexuals.
How are they underrepresented? They’re severely overrepresented on tv and in films to the point that most new films and tv shows are unwatchable woke nonsense, and I’m not even going to get into adverts that shove woke b.s. down our throats.
Just how popular this all is with the public at large can be seen by the viewing figures for Hollywood’s latest virtual-signalling fest.
Disappointed in Pixar. They seem to have managed to navigate their way through the woke era without too much virtue signalling. Actually liked Turning Red – a fun story about four girls who fancy the members of a boyband. Luca had vague hints of homosexual tension but not overplayed and generally very honest and good hearted. Onward, Inside Out – both good. Soul was incoherent gibberish. That’s my short overview of recent Pixar films.
They should stick to identifying as Lamps.
Frozen: “because Elsa may be a raging lesbian”
An insight into the world of Disney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmHWM85ObnI
I don’t think Walt would approve.