Disney and Divorce

Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu to the Muslims.
Years ago, before I was even able to have children, I made my mind up that I wouldn’t show a certain type of movie to my children whenever I had them. Movies that depicted magic in any way except to discourage them were out of the question. Movies that showed royalty or the marriage of common women to men of royalty and having all of their problems solved were definitely out of the question. Until any children of mine were old enough to have a critical talk with me about what they were seeing and understand when I tell them what is wrong with the depiction, there would be no viewing of them. These are referred to as “princess movies” in our house. Princess movies cause serious problems when you’re not careful.
Well, months ago, I was in Blockbuster, looking for something not quite so harmful for my daughter to watch, something educational that also entertains children. But she kept coming to me with exactly the ones I didn’t want her to see. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and even some movie that shows them together in some sorority! She only wanted princess movies, period. And they all show magic of some sort, something that solves all problems all of a sudden, allowing the characters to live happily ever after. And they were all made by Disney. All of them! This was why I entitled this, “Disney and Divorce”. I finally picked out a historically accurate cartoon that my daughter mistook for a princess movie, made by WB. Guess what! It had magic, and the same fantastic notion of regular women marrying royalty and having no more problems in life! It was princess movie, following in Disney’s footsteps. So Disney began a process when they made these princess movies back in the 30s to the 90s. But shortly after Disney began, the soap opera studios and Hollywood began picking up on these notions, and the trouble was that this combination of Disney cartoons for the children and the other movies for adults not only fed children these fantastic notions, but reinforced them when these kids grew up!
Weeks ago, I was in a coffee shop getting something for my wife, and I happened to know the man behind the counter. We talked a bit about the things our kids say, and that led to talk about how some wives have mutually exclusive standards for their men to meet. When we made mention of this, he then related a class discussion about gender relations he had the prior week, in which he told his female classmates that they should get together and sue the F out of Disney, because their expectations had been messed up by the company. He told them that real men could not possibly be everything they expected, just as they cannot possibly be all that porno movies depict them to be. But as he said this, it dawned on me that it was no coincidence that my 3 year old daughter came to me with ONLY the movies that I had determined NOT to show her at so young an age. Yes, I was angry about this! But then he made me realize that it was not possibly just a coincidence! It was intentional! Those movies and they expectations they set, the notions they impart, are all a pit, a trap. The most effective trap to build is one that deceives its prey into thinking they are fortunate to have stumbled into it, and makes others outside feel left out so they’ll jump in, too. My daughter wanted to jump in that pit, not understanding that later on, it would hurt. She didn’t understand that it was a trap! Even without me telling her about the movies, she knew about them from her playmates who have not been kept from the trap, and insists that she must see them! They have been advertised to her, for free, not only to where she knows about them, but also to where she has to see them or she can’t relate, even at three years of age!
The kaffir behind the counter is right! Women need to sue the F out of Disney; sue the fulus out of them! And Muslims need to keep these fantastic notions they impart out of the minds of our Muslim children, so that when they are grown, they do not entertain unrealistic standards for a prospective spouse to meet, only to be disappointed to learn that, no, Allah didn’t make anyone like that for them! Disney began what the other studios continued; the mental process that has led to the climbing divorce rate in the US, which in turn is being mirrored in other countries around the world, too. In America, men who do not earn a lot of money fresh out of college are considered ineligible, even amongst Muslims, even though Allah has promised that he would test even the kuffar with hard times and test us with harder times. In the Arab countries, some families will not allow their daughters to marry until the suitor earns a masters degree from abroad, even though every one earning a master’s degree would only make it less valuable in the job market. I was informed a few years ago that in South Korea, the divorce rate increased to 50 percent in a five year period. Back in the US, From a Walsh says in her book Normal Family Processes that despite the last decade’s slight dip in the divorce rate, it still tripled in the last five decades.
Muslims, please avoid letting our kids fall into these traps. They do not need to see these movies until they are old enough to mistake them for comedies just for being so unrealistic! Even then, they should probably only view them once so that they know what is behind the stupidity of the fantasies entertained by the kuffar between whom we unfortunately live. Their entertainment value is nil for the people of tawheed who detest magic and lies.
May we soon see the day that our children think such stories are comedies because they cannot stop laughing at the stupidity of them! May we soon be of those who are careful what messages we accept and to what we expose our children!


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