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Academics have been pontificating again:
Even the Seven Dwarfs are guilty, well two of them anyway. Grumpy and Dopey are no longer just the loyal friends of Snow White but must now line up with the likes of the Wicked Queen and Cruella de Vil to be accused of fostering negative images of elderly people.
According to academics, Walt Disney’s seemingly ageist cartoon depiction of older people as evil or incompetent risks adversely influencing children.
I grew up with these cartoons back in the sixties and I wasn’t so influenced. Like most rational children I was capable of telling the difference between real life and cartoons. Unlike some academics, it seems. Fuckwits!
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Comment by Terri
# May 31, 2007,
Astonishing. Is it a real story? In all this time, it’s never even crossed my mind that they’re representatives of anything but, um, the seven dwarfs. Does that mean that elderly people don’t mind being associated with the other five?
Comment by Longrider
# June 1, 2007,
One wonders… But it is just daft enough to qualify.