Bevendre

the-wolfbats:

fleurmod:

People, or at least Tumblr, have a tendency to attack Disney on character design more than other companies. Ghibli often reuses character designs among female protagonists, not all the time but often. Disney does the same thing, but they’re the ones who get bashed.

Dreamworks…

‘Disney has touched most ethnicities in two decades.’ - …uh.

Yeah, once an ethnicity and no more, and oftentimes poorly.

People don’t hold other animation studios to their standards because Disney has been around for far longer and hasn’t changed with the quickness of even DreamWorks’ like…twenty.

They’re also the most visible. I don’t hear of them laying off people because they’ve been sliding since late 2012.

These double standards are why I made the post in the first place.  The issue isn’t that a company does or doesn’t portray different groups in their films, but that different companies are held up differently for doing the exact same thing.

Yes, Disney has been around much longer, but that shouldn’t be a factor for what they put out today.  Disney has been around for decades, but in the time that they have had major competitors they have innovated the animation industry and had a wide array of representation in their movies even if they have had many films that feature Caucasian protagonists.    Other companies have done the same, and often much less, in the same time and are either ignored or lauded for doing the same things that Disney is criticized for.

Disney has had its issues and controversies.  I have no intention of arguing against that.  However, it is not that that angers me, but the double standards present in the criticisms that bug me.  As I said, people are welcome to dislike or criticize a company, but just because others haven’t been around as long is no excuse to give them a free pass on the exact same things.

(via the-wolfbats)