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Another woke company wakes up too late The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 5/26/22 by WALTER784; 52770 views.
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From: WALTER784
Aug-22
Showtalk said...
I hope they can turn around before it’s too late and they become Bud Light. Disney and Disney-related things have been a big part of my life and I hate to see such a huge company go under.
They were a big part of many of our lives, but not anymore... due to climate change...
Due to their continued doubling down, the CLIMATE of parents wanting to take their kids to the Magical Kingdom have CHANGED.
Disney's real problem: climate change
DAVID STROM 6:41 PM
August 21, 2023
Well, this is a take.
Not a convincing take, but I suppose that if you love Disney so much that you think they can do no wrong it is likely the best you can come up with.
Inside the Magic, a Disney fan site of longstanding (18 years and counting) influence, has discovered the real reason Disney is suddenly suffering from a severe decline in attendance.
Climate change.
There are a lot of conflicting stories about just how awful attendance really is at Disney theme parks and resorts–even with lower attendance the parks can be crowded at times. But it’s clear that Disney is suffering quite a bit, closing low-performing properties and lowering prices. July 4th is usually a huge day for them, but not this year. And there are videos of Disney facilities with next to no attendance.
Defenders of Disney are blaming the heat, which is notoriously not a problem in Orlando. Until 2023 heat and humidity were rarely an issue in Florida, and the Los Angeles area is hardly known for being hot in the summer.
Uh, yeah. Right.
Overwhelming numbers of floods, fires, and heat waves have shown how seriously climate change impacts Disney theme parks. And sources say it’s only going to get worse.
Disney’s attendance has dropped substantially, but while there is worry about Bob Iger deceiving attendees and the area being a “ghost town,” the answer can also relate to something simpler: weather. While weather and climate change are inherently different, the impacts of climate change on Disney show in meteorological events.
Who wants to go to the theme park when it’s rained out? Why would you risk bringing the family to Disneyland Resort if there is smoke in the air from a fire? These events are getting more common, and the inability to plan for them is one huge way climate change impacts Disney.
There is, of course, an alternate explanation. And one that would also account for the fact that Disney movies as a group have been seriously underperforming. Rain, heat, and other weather-related issues are hardly a major factor when it comes to the movies, after all.
That explanation? The wokification of Disney. For the past few years Disney has been a vocal political activist and has spent a lot of effort insulting its customers, transing its staff, and fighting with the wildly popular governor of Florida.
Heat, in other words, is likely a factor. But it is the political temperature that is killing Disney and not the garden-variety hot days of summer in Florida.
Disney keeps doubling down on woke, and customers just don’t seem to like it.
I didn’t grow up in a Disney family–the one time my parents took the kids to Disneyland I was not born yet. I watched a few Disney movies, but the true Disney fanatics came of age after me.
So losing what little interest I had for the brand is no great loss to the company. But plenty of parents today are looking at the company and losing their loyalty to the brand. It simply doesn’t look like anything they grew up with.
Brands are built on consistency, and social change is about…change. That’s why pushing the idea of social revolution is a dangerous game for major corporations.
I don’t know if the climate change excuse is being pushed by the company or not–it has appeared in a few places in the media–but if so it is a pretty lame excuse.
The reality is much simpler: Disney is insulting its customers and its customers have gotten the message.
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From: Showtalk
Aug-22
Clever. It’s due to policies but even more to costs. The average family of 4 can’t afford $500 for a day at Disneyland. Even if they arrive when it opens and leave late, they can’t even get onto more than 6-8 rides. That is a lot of money to walk around a theme park for a handful of 5 minute rides plus a lot of long lines.
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From: WALTER784
Aug-22
The US is becoming the laughing stock of the world!!!
Man with full beards featured in Maybelline new product promotion
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From: WALTER784
Sep-9
Vogue Includes Transgender Cyclist on List of ‘Powerhouse Women’ of 2023
By Cassandra MacDonald
Aug. 28, 2023 1:15 pm
Vogue, the most well-known fashion magazine in the world, included a biological male cyclist on their list of 2023’s “Powerhouse Women.”
The list was published last week under the headline, “The Vogue 25: Discover The Powerhouse Women Who Made This Year’s Line-Up.”
“Professional cyclist Emily Bridges never wanted to be a campaigner. Before May this year, she only had one goal: competing for Great Britain at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Then the British Cycling Federation banned transgender athletes from the sport,” Vogue asserted. “Now, the Welsh 22-year-old is fighting for inclusion for herself and other transgender sportspeople.”
“It’s very scary at the moment, but I genuinely believe that we will win,” Bridges told Vogue, adding that he has received “death threats.”
The Vogue blurb added, “Behind the scenes, she’s donating muscle samples to Loughborough University research to see, once and for all, if transgender athletes do have the ‘unfair advantage’ some claim. What’s next? ‘To fight the decision legally, in the courts.'”
Vogue and its magazine for younger readers, Teen Vogue, have been at the forefront of pushing gender ideology.
In November, Teen Vogue published an article promoting mutilating minors in the name of “gender affirmation.”
Teen Vogue is a website and magazine targeted at children as young as 12.
The article from Kaiyti Duffy, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, begins by shaming the New York Times for daring to publish an article that questioned if there are long-term side effects to puberty blockers.
“In the midst of Transgender Awareness Week, and just before a gunman killed five in a shooting at a popular LGBTQ bar in Colorado, The New York Times published an unfortunate piece about gender-affirming care,” the doctor’s article began. “The headline posed a question: ‘They Paused Puberty, But Is There A Cost?’ Immediately, transgender people, queer activists, and LGBTQ-affirming medical providers like myself braced for the inevitable: Another piece questioning trans health and the community’s seemingly endless pursuit for equitable medical care.”
Duffy acknowledged that the pills could lead to low bone density but claimed that it is considered “safe” anyway because there is a possibility that a person claiming to be trans might commit suicide without them.
“At this moment, at least 20 states are considering bans regarding the provision of medically necessary, life-saving gender-affirming care for trans youth,” the doctor wrote. “These legislative assaults are not being waged out of concern for trans and gender diverse youth and their families. This is not about the bone health of these young people. These efforts are rooted in transphobia and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments and I’m saddened that the New York Times failed to call this out. If the assault against gender-affirming care persists, we may soon be unable to pause puberty. Without question, this would come at a steep cost to young trans and gender diverse people. Their lives are literally on the line. Where is the New York Times story about that?”
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Staff
From: WALTER784
Sep-29
Woke breastfeeding organization eliminates the word ‘mother’ from its mission statement
Even on the La Leche League International website, which (unlike the USA version) does still refer to mothers and mothering, one of the principles now references 'human milk' as the 'natural food for babies, uniquely meeting their changing needs.'
Fawn Brickel
Sat Sep 9, 2023 - 8:01 am EDT
(Frontline News) — La Leche League was established in 1956 as a support group for mothers who chose to breastfeed their babies in a world where it was often not supported, and even actively discouraged.
Today, the La Leche League U.S. website does not even mention the word “mother” in their mission statement, or just about anywhere on their website.
Their signal publication is The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which has been updated and reprinted seven times since its original publication in 1958. This book is still advertised on the LLL international site, but it has disappeared from the USA site, except for a few mentions in articles.
In 2014, the LLL USA internet site proclaimed that LLL
believes that mothering through breastfeeding deepens a mother’s understanding and acceptance of the responsibilities and rewards of her special role in the family. As a woman grows in mothering she grows as a human being, and every other role she may fill in her lifetime is enriched by the insights and humanity she brings to it from her experiences as a mother.
Today, LLL USA
helps parents, families, and communities to breastfeed, chestfeed, and human milk feed their babies through parent-to-parent support. LLL USA encourages, informs, educates, supports, and promotes the use of human milk and the intimate relationship and development that comes from nursing a child for as long as mutually desired.
READ: Breastfeeding organization welcomes transgender ‘nursing men’
In a world where most “feminists” chose to climb the corporate ladder, the feminists of La Leche League – and many of them did consider themselves feminists – sought to empower women through one of the most significant feminine acts, nurturing their babies and families. They did this by providing breastfeeding support and advice to any woman who wanted it, free of charge, but they also sought to represent an overarching ideal for parenting.
This included many things: natural childbirth, breastfeeding on demand, child-led weaning, good nutrition for the whole family, staying at home with your young children, and principles that have come to be called attachment parenting. They did not demand this of the mothers who sought their help, and these ideals were not cut in stone and inflexible, but those who aspired to be La Leche League Leaders had to agree on some level to 10 basic principles that formed the core of the organization’s ideals.
Even on the LLL International website, which – unlike the USA site – does still refer to mothers and mothering, there is an interesting change to one of those principles. While in the 1989 edition of the Leader’s Handbook, one of the guiding principles of LLL was that “[b]reastmilk is the superior infant food.” (p.3), the LLL international site today substitutes the following: “Human milk is the natural food for babies, uniquely meeting their changing needs.” [Emphasis added.]
This is significant, and even misinforming. Human milk, as a substance, does not uniquely meet a baby’s changing needs. Breast milk does.
For years, practically from its inception, LLL has fought against the widespread pressure on mothers to use breast milk substitutes (“formula”), for various reasons. One is that it is not the same as the real thing, a reality that has been revealed on many occasions when babies sickened or died because of some essential component that was later found to be missing in a “formula.” Breast milk substitutes are a godsend when they are necessary, a great improvement on what was otherwise available to babies who didn’t have mothers or had one of the few mothers who couldn’t produce an adequate supply of milk. Like all medications, however, one must weigh the benefits against the risks.
A welcome entry into the arena of feeding babies who cannot feed from their mothers are breast milk banks. Again, a godsend for the preemies for whom the bank was originally established. A baby can receive donated breast milk; or, shall we say, “human milk” – because there are differences.
In 2019, a review of studies on brea
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From: WALTER784
Sep-29
Apparently not any more... they don't know what a woman or mother is other than a birthing person!!!
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From: WALTER784
Oct-5
INDOCTRINATION: University of Arizona is Teaching Future Nurses to Start Asking Patients About Gender Identity as Young as Three Years Old
By Jim H?ft
Sep. 7, 2023 8:00 pm
If you ever wondered just how far academic institutions are willing to push the boundaries for ideological indoctrination, prepare yourself for this jaw-dropping revelation. According to Chaya Raichik, the person behind the LibsofTikTok account, the University of Arizona nursing school is teaching its future nurses to start questioning pediatric patients as young as three years old about their gender identity.
The verbiage suggested by a PowerPoint slide that Raichik managed to obtain reads as follows:
Asking pediatric patients about gender identity
“Some kids feel like a girl on the inside, some kids feel like a boy on the inside, and some kids feel like neither, both, or someone else. What about you? How do you feel on the inside? There’s no right or wrong answer.”
Unbelievably, the PowerPoint goes on to say:
When to ask
Start around age 3, during the well visit.”
SCOOP: University of Arizona nursing school is teaching future nurses that 3-year-olds can know they are transgender. They’re also being taught to start questioning patients as young as 3 about their gender.
.@UAZNursing did not respond to our request for comment. pic.twitter.com/KlNtwsBWjO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 6, 2023
Three years old. Let that sink in. At an age when children are learning their colors, shapes, and how to string sentences together, these medical students are reportedly being instructed to delve into complex discussions about gender identity.
This jaw-dropping development has elicited reactions from public figures like Kari Lake and Lauren Boebert. Lake pointed out, “University of Arizona is teaching the next generation of nurses to brainwash children as young as 3-years old into thinking they can choose their own gender. When my children were 3, they still believed in the boogeyman. We can’t trust our kids with medical professionals who want to groom them.”
Lauren Boebert weighed in, saying, “I’m so over this crap. Full stop.” Elon Musk responded also with an exclamation point, “!”
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to the University of Arizona for comment, but as of the writing of this article, there has been no response.
There is a line between education and indoctrination, and according to these reports, the University of Arizona is dangerously crossing it. To potentially push a narrative on children who are barely out of diapers is nothing short of astonishing. It is a disturbing indication of how far some institutions will go to normalize agendas that most of us find inconceivable.
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From: WALTER784
Nov-15
Neither Disney nor Hollywood seem to understand...
Nolte: Disney’s ‘The Marvels’ Bombed All over Planet Earth
JOHN NOLTE
12 Nov 2023
The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s latest bomb, The Marvels, has officially flopped all over planet Earth.
Worldwide, which includes its record-low domestic take here in North America, The Marvels opened globally to a disastrous $110 million to $115 million.
That is the lowest global open in the 15-year history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that would be considered a disaster for any movie with a reported production and promotion cost of $200 million, much less the $300+ million this sucker likely cost.
Gee, do Trump-voting, mouth-breathing sexists and racists have so much influence that they were able to stop The Entire Planet from going to see The Marvels? That’s just my way of asking: Who will Disney and its sycophants in the entertainment media blame this breathtaking, historic box office bomb on? Because remember…
The media will never blame the quality of the movie or the divisive politics employed by the studios and filmmakers that alienate, insult, and crap all over the very fans that made these franchises golden geese to begin with (see also: Wars, Star; Jones, Indiana; Prey, Birds of; Woman, Wonder; Angels, Charlie; Black, Men in; Jam, Space; Busters, Ghost; Nator, Termi; and ar, Pix — because these people are rons, mo).
Telling the truth about the movie’s (lack of) quality would cost the entertainment media advertisers. To blame the divisive politics would not only lose advertisers but be an admission that the entertainment media’s own sacred political and social beliefs are box office poison.
Sadly for them, all they can do is hide the truth. But the truth is still the truth, and the truth is that people are not interested in movies that violate human nature by way of some stupid DEI agenda.
Normal people care about character, not skin color. We care about stories, not political agendas. We care about universal themes, not scolding and virtue signaling.
Above all, we want to be transported away for a couple of hours to forget our troubles with characters we can relate to, especially beautiful and appealing characters who offer some wish fulfillment through romance and sex appeal — both of which have been declared verboten by the left’s New Puritanism.
Ms. Marvel was ballyhooed as the “first Muslim superhero.”
Okay.
So..
Where are all the Muslims?
There are billions of Muslims around the world, tens if not hundreds of millions in the Western world where The Marvels is playing. Where are they?
Unfortunately for the Disney Grooming Syndicate, most Muslims are normal people who have no interest in this DEI crap.
Same with Hispanics, who had zero interest in Blue Beetle — The First Hispanic Superhero! That sucker made $124 million globally — globally!
Over the past five years, this has been Hollywood’s insane marketing plan: We will openly insult and alienate the fans who made these franchises a success to appeal to all those different groups who don’t see our movies.
So, instead of expanding the tent, these DEI Cultists kicked out all the normal people and are now dumbfounded because people who never liked these franchises aren’t finally showing up in droves to cheer all the sterile, charmless preaching, gay sex, and girlbossing.
And Hollywood did this because Hollywood hates, and I mean HATES, the very people who made these franchises world-beaters. Putting Kathleen Kennedy in charge of Star Wars and Indiana Jones makes about as much sense as putting me in charge of the National Teachers Union because all my energy would go towards destroying it. Same with PBS and Applebee’s.
Nolte: Disney’s ‘The Marvels’ Bombed All over Planet Earth (breitbart.com)
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