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The Tale Of A Big Kid Trapped In A Grown Up's Body
10 Facts about our Favorite Lady Mouse:
1. Minnie’s full name is actually Minerva Mouse.
2. Minnie Mouse debuted in the cartoon Plane Crazy in 1928, the same cartoon in which Mickey Mouse was introduced. Interestingly enough, she spent the whole cartoon evading Mickey’s kiss attempts! She even parachutes out of a plane to avoid him.
3. There is a lot of speculation over whether or not Mickey and Minnie are just boyfriend and girlfriend, or if they’re actually married. Although they’ve never been shown getting married in any of the cartoons, Walt has said that in his mind they have been and always will be a married couple in love.
4. Minnie Mouse was originally designed in the flapper fashion. Her first and main fashion statement was wearing the female version of a bowler hat with her signature daisy sprouting from the top. In some of the cartoons of 1929 she was revealed wearing black stockings as well, right along with her oversized signature black pumps.
5. Both of Minnie’s parents are farmers.
6. Minnie is actually the one who introduced the character of Pluto in The Picnic.
7. Minnie was originally voiced by Walt Disney.
8. For a short time, Minnie Mouse was voiced by Judy Garland (a.k.a. Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz!)
9. The current voice of Minnie Mouse, Russi Taylor, as well as the current voice of Mickey Mouse, Wayne Allwine, are actually a married couple! They met on the job and fell in love. (EDIT: Sad news - apparently Wayne Allwine died just last year!)
10. Minnie Mouse has numerous family members that make appearances in various Disney cartoons. Mortimer Mouse is her uncle, and Millie and Melody Mouse are her cousins.
(via dizzney)
Love Chely Wright <3
“Religion has been used to malign and condemn people like me for generations, we all know that. There is a rumor floating around out there about LGBT people and it’s not good. A lot of folks think that we’re Godless and that we’re “this way” because some of us don’t flock to houses of worship with the urgency and frequency that would satisfy those who judge us so harshly.
I like analogies; perhaps it’s the songwriter in me, so if you’ll indulge me, I’ll offer this one. I liken the notion that we (the LGBT community) are a Godless people to a scenario on a grade school playground. Remember when you were in 3rd grade, when it was time to choose teams for a game of kickball during recess and all of the favored, obvious players were chosen first? This left the same players to be chosen last or to never even get a chance to kick or take the field — essentially giving a message to that kid, “You’re never going to get to play. You’re not good enough. You don’t belong.” Remember that happening to the same kid over and over? Well, eventually that kid would stop hoping to be chosen for either team. And eventually that kid would probably develop an aversion, perhaps even a life-long, deep loathing for the game of kickball. It’s a protective mechanism that humans employ to preserve the most tender parts of their psyche. That’s what it feels like for an LGBT kid in a place of worship. That kid is repeatedly given the message that he or she will never, ever fit in and be acceptable to God or to the congregation. Why would anyone subject themselves to that kind of spiritual rejection and spiritual violence on a weekly basis? Why would that LGBT kid grow up to seek out the same type of negative messaging as an adult”
-Chely Wright
Read the rest here.
Dear Vancouver, who’s going to explain to this injured CHILD what mob mentality is? #Vancouver
“God made bees so we can have honey. God makes everything so it can have a special job, even bees.”
Family keeps their baby’s gender a secret???
Okay, as everyone knows, I am absolutely against gender stereotyping. I think it’s wrong to force your son to play with trucks and your daughter to play with dolls. I don’t think colors should have as much gender significance as they do.
HOWEVER… Witterick-Stocker family has gone entirely too far in my mind. They want their child to “pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mold from the outset,” and so they’re keeping their baby’s gender a secret to everyone… even FAMILY.
But my question is… Why?
What’s wrong with raising your daughter as a daughter, having her take pride in her womanhood, YET…. not putting her into a gender role? Doesn’t that set a better example than telling her that you as her parents, and her, weren’t capable of challenging society without withdrawing yourself?
I feel like parents choose the controversial route nowadays for attention. However, I think the really amazing parents are the parents who raise their children to take pride in who they are, regardless of gender role.
Eventually, this child is going to have a lot of questions. And it’s only a matter of time before he/she is in preschool and is going to figure out what gender he/she is. Generally, there is a developmental point where young children start to cling to their gender identity naturally.
So what does this mean for gender neutral baby? Well, by now this child will probably know about the gender neutrality that was imposed on them. And they’ll probably feel weird, even if just subconsciously, approaching their parents with any questions they have relating to their gender. So now, they’ll have an even MORE confused child who doesn’t think their confusion is valid or of worth.
There is such thing as being too progressive.
Tangled
The Lion King
Aladdin
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Alice in Wonderland
Snow White
