|
|
Calluna (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} calluna) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2004-01-17 11:13:00 |
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| Entry tags: | disney, godwin alert, troll, usenet wank |
"Hyenas are our bretheren."
RattleRain crossposts an anti-Lion King rant to several groups, including rec.arts.disney.animation.
From: RattleRain (lisamorgendunst2@hotmail.com)
Subject: Lion King just really stupid, lame, and slanderous
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films, rec.arts.disney.animation, rec.animals.wildlife, rec.arts.animation
Date: 2004-01-11 12:19:49 PST
Stupid because we see all the animals ceremoniously bow to the newborn lion cub. Isn't this cub gonna grow up to a big lion and eat them and their offsprings? Lions aren't exactly vegans. Translated to human affairs, it means a priveleged elite based on noble blood has the right to lord over all the poor peasant saps that get it up the ass.
It's lame because it's politically correct, the message being that new generation of white boys(Broderick) should look up to black people(voice actors of Broderick's lion parents)as moral exemplars while white male lion, of course, represents Euro-centric evil.
Worst, however, is Lion King's slanderous misrepresentation of animals. In the movie, hyenas are safari trash. Until relatively recent times, lions were seen as noble hunters and hyenas as dastardly scavengers and thieves. In reality, hyenas are not only better hunters than lions but more often lose their kill to marauding, thieving lions. Yet, because of Lion King, kids all over the world will think hyenas are vermin that they are not. They may be the prettiest animals and they do make funny sounds but they tough, fierce animals that can hold their own against the meanest, baddest critters in Africa.
Some of the veteran members have a history with this troll and mock him, and someone else pops in to give us a link to history of this troll, better known as Gaza, since about 1997 as well as his MO, as a warning. (Usenet takes trolling really seriously!)
"Gaza" comes back and violates Godwin's:
I don't mind lions being shown as lords of the jungle(or savannah). But, other animals happily greeting the birth of a lion cub? That's like watching black slaves welcome the birth of a massa or Jews celebrating the birth of one of Goerring's kids.
And, of course, a few people take the guy seriously:
"Gaza, it's a fucking DISNEY movie, you dolt. Does this have any significance to you?"
Samantha finally decides she's had it, telling the troll (now back under a foreign name, just like in the MO) to GET OVER IT! IT'S JUST A MOVIE!!!1 Pot, kettle.
"THE HYENA IS NOBODY'S BOOBOO!"
The troll's response after being told to fuck off. (I must icon this...)
'Tis but a small wank, but it's still going on...
EDIT: Links should be fixed now.
