“When we were young, you could watch cartoons without having to worry.”
— The Recount (@therecount) April 28, 2022
— Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) again baselessly claims Disney is injecting sexuality into cartoons while stumping for Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt pic.twitter.com/7FrKGGjzLT
I seriously had to check DeSantis' age twice on this, just in case my math was wrong, but DeSantis is 43 and was still a teenager in the 1990s. I get that we're rehashing all the right wing's greatest hits from Satanic panic to commies! (and any day now they'll tell us that teen suicide is really those dirty heavy metal records, probably). But its hilarious to hear someone younger than me go off like his childhood tv reminiscence is Leave it to Beaver and The Donna Reed Show and not Roseanne and Married with Children.
Disney movies are not any raunchier or whatever than when Boomer-drag artist Ron Desantis was a kid. (I'd actually say the romance storylines are less sketchy, now, if anything.) DeSantis is just mad because he's a prickly little fascist out over his skis and all because a major corporation has the temerity to....mildly disagree with him over an overtly homophobic bill when a good portion of their fanbase is LGBT people.
DeSantis can say "when we were young" as if he didn't grow up in the tail-end of "We Didn't Start the Fire". But given the way he talks, perhaps he never was young, just a premature fuddy-duddy who pines for a Golden Age we never ever had.
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