There is an explanation for Disney's war
on children
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
4/9/2022 8:06:03 AM
Very often, when companies go woke, it turns out that the wokeness is a cover for changing market forces. That is, they're not alienating traditional demographics; they're reflecting that their money is coming from new demographics. When it comes to Hollywood and the NBA, for example, the big bucks are coming from China, not America. And when it comes to Disney, the main profit center isn't children; it's young adults who, Peter Pan–like, refuse to grow up.
The brilliant Daniel Greenfield makes this point in an article entitled "Disney's Business Model is Turning Kids into Dysfunctional Adults: Its customer base isn't kids. It's messed up adults."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 4/9/2022 8:16:16 AM (No. 1123705)
Great article, with excellent points. But it as has been pointed out in other recent articles, the executives who run Disney are "not right in the head". A corrupt tree cannot bear good fruit.
29 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
philsner 4/9/2022 8:17:20 AM (No. 1123706)
Yada, yada yada. Woof, woof. You can't rationalize evil.
10 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/9/2022 8:19:05 AM (No. 1123710)
This Marshall McLuhan-esque analysis has removed the scales from my eyes on Disney. Thanks, Andrea.
However, I am bummed.
24 people like this.
"Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore."
We didn't move to a new country, but we didn't have a true understanding of the seedy underbelly of this country.
14 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
spacer 4/9/2022 8:58:45 AM (No. 1123761)
Demographics and dollars have always gone together, along with advertising that drove the demographics to create more dollars. Somewhere along the way our culture went awry. I think SCOTUS legalizing abortion and lately homosexual marriage, both have zero constitutional protection, into American blood is the driving force for all the depravity.
20 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/9/2022 9:12:05 AM (No. 1123781)
In sn orchard, sometimes a tree catches a disease, or otherwise falters, that may have at one time been an excellent tree...
... but now it's only fit to throw on the brush pile and burn.
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 4/9/2022 9:14:40 AM (No. 1123788)
Now it makes perfect sense. I have a few f**ked up family members and they LOVE Disney.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Californian 4/9/2022 9:21:28 AM (No. 1123796)
Maybe this article is correct. I don't know. But I do know that alienating 36% of your customer base is very bad business.
13 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
groover 4/9/2022 10:12:59 AM (No. 1123845)
Traditional parenting has gone by the wayside, no wonder up is down.
11 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/9/2022 10:13:01 AM (No. 1123847)
FTA: "Disney still has a profitable kids segment, but its real profits come from overgrown children born into broken families, prematurely coming of sexual age, who are eager to embrace leftist utopian causes and fantasies, who are seeking an identity and an escape at the same time.
Anyone who has visited a Disney park or cruised can confirm these observations. It's not the kids excited by Disney, but the middle-aged mothers with their Mickey t-shirts and mouse ears dragging their bored kids along to ride the teacups or Dumbo...living vicariously through their kids. The big demographic is DINK households...dual income, no kids. The travel and entertainment industry caters to this segment because, as Willy Sutton observed regarding banks, that's where the money is.
18 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/9/2022 10:56:13 AM (No. 1123897)
I have some too, #7.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 4/9/2022 11:06:55 AM (No. 1123901)
Agreed #8.
The 'math' is simple - alienate more of your customers than you are gaining by pandering
to a very small segment of the population equals net LOSS.
Whoever in the Disney ivory tower(s) came up with this should be publicly pilloried.
2 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/9/2022 11:14:08 AM (No. 1123909)
As others have said, this explains a lot. Never quite connected the dots. This also explains the Disney After Hours option when you can stay until 12:30 AM. Who would drag their kids to Disneyworld at that hour? It's no longer for kids.
6 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/9/2022 11:25:18 AM (No. 1123920)
Leave it to leftists to ruin any good thing. They want to live in a "Leave it to Beaver" world where a "woke" June Cleaver, still sports a mid-calf dress and sweater bringing plates of warm cookies to Ward, sharpening lawnmower blades in the garage... BUT THEN Wally comes out as Lumpy Rutherford's transvestite lover and Beaver turns into a highly perverted client at the Mayfield Brothel, owned and managed by Eddie Haskell (and the mob), and Larry Mondello doing a couple of nickels in San Quentin for drug trafficking and Whitey Whitney is a well respected founding member of the Mayfield Chapter of the Hell's Angels with Gilbert Bates as his attorney. Judy Hensler of course became a leader in the LGBTQ__ community and remains a frequent Beaver harasser...
Disney has always been about fantasy, and now they engage in a "West World" of sorts for the "soy boys" they developed over the years who can now play "Peter Parker Pan" all their days, while showing up every four years to vote Democrat
Leftist policies, e.g. "The Great Society," lay waste to society through five generations of welfare addiction, resulting in urban decay, gang violence, and death. So where do you escape to? Disneyland! Where secret cameras track your every move and plain-clothes security roam the park - protecting you from criminals, and every scrap of paper is picked up in the blink of an eye by hardly noticed park staff. Does it sound like a Socialist Paradise yet? And all you have to do is give up your right to privacy, pay a huge admission fee (and continuing fees), and show proof of all vaccinations to enter.
6 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
columba 4/9/2022 11:54:36 AM (No. 1123953)
If one has a habit of following the demons, one eventually believe that he is doing right. But He isn't.
4 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Magnante"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)