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Damn_Underscore posted...

I'm pointing out your hypocrisy and once again you didn't answer my question.

Why are you so insistent that people shouldn't care about this movie because "it's for little girls"

There is no hypocrisy here. Both Disney and Nintendo are two different companies with different marketing strategies to their products. The topic doesn't even have anything at all to do with Nintendo so I don't know why you're focusing on it so much.

Disney makes a variety of products and those products all have different target demographics in mind. They make movies for little girls, movies for little boys, and movies for adults. Sure they may aim for cross appeal but that doesn't mean that there isn't a main demographic in mind when they make a specific movie. The Little Mermaid is a franchise where the target demographic is little girls. Middle aged men can whine and cry until they're blue in the face but that's completely irrelevant to Disney because they never set out to make The Little Mermaid to appeal to you. They made it to appeal to your daughter and your little sister, and all of their creative changes will be made to reflect the opinions of their target demographic.

The men in their 30s may have strong opinions about this movie, but this movie was never meant to be enjoyed with them in mind. So any changes to the lyrics aren't going to reflect the whims and sensibilities to men in their 30s and what they feel about non-verbal consent, it's going to be made to appeal to the opinions of little girls and what they feel about non-verbal consent and touching. As you can already tell from the discussion occurring in this topic, men in their 30s feel a whole lot different regarding non-verbal consent and initiating contact than little girls do. But since Disney never made this movie with 30 year old men as their target demographic in mind they're going to change it with the opinions of little girls instead. Opinions and attitudes change over time and it's been 34 years since the movie made its original debut, and people think a lot differently about consent now than they did when this movie first came out.

Also, people are getting very angry about this change and they don't even know what the change even is. Maybe it'll be a change of perspective, and instead of the lyrics focusing solely on Sbastien trying to convince Eric to kiss Ariel without affirming her consent while the song completely ignores what she actually wants then maybe the song will include some lines that include Ariel's actual thoughts and opinions on the matter as well.