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I've finally found an article that gets to the very heart of the problem I have with Disney (and through Disney, in a way, with all of popular culture). It's a bit long-winded, but it's a nice change from the usual critiques of Disney's race and gender fail, which while accurate and pertinent, miss the central issue, as I see it. (The article also indirectly addresses the issue of Disney's cold-blooded murder of classics of all genres, since even the most traditional of fairy tales tends to have subversive themes in the original, which Disney takes special care to excise.)

In any case, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees a problem with the normalization of monarchy and class hierarchy through the cynical peddling of manufactured "innocence".

...In other news, I'm going to pick up my visa tomorrow. Maybe that will finally make it seem real to me that I'm going to be in France all next year. Right now it seems a bit unreal - between nerves and excitement one tends to lose track of concreteness. And yet... there's only a month to go. O_O