Comments on: Hallucinating feet http://othermag.org/blog/?p=173 pop culture and politics for the new outcasts Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:06:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Liz Henry http://othermag.org/blog/?p=173&cpage=1#comment-8133 Liz Henry Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:17:28 +0000 http://othermag.org/blog/?p=173#comment-8133 It's so strange. You have the black guru penguin and the sexual-harassment expert vato penguins... Really one wonders if there were no overplaying or reifying of race and gender, would there be a story anywhere at all? Don't even get me started on the hyena ghetto in The Lion King - it's made so clear that the hyenas deserve to starve in their ghetto and that they belong there. It's very, very, strange! We do things in animated cartoons or stories about talking animals with race and class (and gender, I think) that would look completely insane to most people if done in a live action movie. Not to rehash "How to Read Donald Duck" for the millionth time or anything... It’s so strange. You have the black guru penguin and the sexual-harassment expert vato penguins… Really one wonders if there were no overplaying or reifying of race and gender, would there be a story anywhere at all?

Don’t even get me started on the hyena ghetto in The Lion King – it’s made so clear that the hyenas deserve to starve in their ghetto and that they belong there. It’s very, very, strange! We do things in animated cartoons or stories about talking animals with race and class (and gender, I think) that would look completely insane to most people if done in a live action movie.

Not to rehash “How to Read Donald Duck” for the millionth time or anything…

]]> By: Danny http://othermag.org/blog/?p=173&cpage=1#comment-8131 Danny Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:05:22 +0000 http://othermag.org/blog/?p=173#comment-8131 Also, as ever, the weird racial angle to the whole thing. Like in Shark's Tail, you sit there going, so the funny happy penguins that are singing and dancing for the smart clumsy masters, and are friends with the latino penguins, are they *not* supposed to be black? Also, as ever, the weird racial angle to the whole thing. Like in Shark’s Tail, you sit there going, so the funny happy penguins that are singing and dancing for the smart clumsy masters, and are friends with the latino penguins, are they *not* supposed to be black?

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