A thread for fellow Disney haters - AIBU to.....

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Not buy dd her heart's desire for Christmas?

She wants a Minnie Mouse toy. She is 3 - will be 4 in February.

Now - she only wants one because her little friend is a Minnie obsessive. She (the friend) has Minnie clothes, Minnie toys, Minnie bedroom, Minnie this Minnie that....and in particular, a Minnie plush toy that dd jealously covets whenever we visit their house.

I dislike most things Disney - it would be a cold day in Hell before I would shell out for a trip to Disneyland (Paris OR Florida). We don't even have the Disney channel...so dd's knowledge of Minnie Mouse is simply through her wee pal.

Of all the things Disney - the biggest turn off is Mickey and Minnie Mouse. They're ugly and irritating, and represent all the things about Disney I balk at. The merchandising, the American-ness of it all. Tasteless, brash and tacky is how I find it and them.

Now - I don't expect everyone to agree with that, but that is how I feel. We all have our particular dislikes, and things we won't cave in about, and Disney is mine. A handful of DVDs is one thing - the merchandising quite another.

I don't want to buy her a Minnie Mouse - she will take it everywhere and it will annoy the fuck out of me. Dh says no way, as he hates Disney too.

AIBU?

I am popping out to take ds2 to his swimming lesson, so I will expect to come back to a bunch of replies telling me how awful I am.

Oh - and should add - ds2 (who is a year older than dd) has now started saying he wants a Mickey Mouse, as they always like to have the same stuff. I am appalled!

I dislike it too.... But it's a toy for her, not you, right?

YANBU. You are lucky that your DH shares your utter hatred dislike! We've been infiltated thanks to MIL, who got us horrendous Disneyfied Pooh for DD when she was born. DH thought he was sweet . Hormonal me wailed and ranted for days while Pooh sat in his gift box facing the wall. Although he's now allowed to sit with the other toys I still can't forgive Disney for what they did to poor old AA Milne's version.

This thread is proving very theraputic! Thankyou OP.

Since when are Americans a seperate race to us anyway - in further response to the 'racist' claims.

I'm not so bothered about Minnie (or Mickey) Mouse - the Disney stuff for older kids is so much worse! However to all those saying she'll have a lovely Christmas no matter what you get her...ds aged 2 - unknown to me his nursery had got them all to make a list for Santa using cut outs from a catalogue. He brought this home on CHRISTMAS EVE and stuck it to the fridge. In pride of place was a picture of a digger... Christmas morning came and no digger (as he had given us no clue up till we saw the blinkin' list that he wanted one). He spend most of Christmas Day going back and forward to teh list saying Santa hadn't got him his digger...(he's 12 now - he got over it!)

So the people saying 'yabu' would you think that if a child chose a nestle chocolate bar and you didn't agree with giving money to nestle so just bought the kid a different one is that wrong aswell? It really is the same thing.. (just using nestle as an example)

I based my response on the op. Who stated it was just dislike of Disney, rather than a moral or ethical objection.

If someone is actively boycotting a product from their household for those reasons that is different

It is quite a moral stance as well. I'm just too slack to follow it through with any real passion about it.
In my own lazy way, I rather disapprove of Disney.

Wasn't Walt Disney allegedly a racist?

Yabvu it's not about you and what you like. I don't like Peppa pig but dd loves it, I m not going to inflict my tastes on her, she is her own individual who has her own likes and dislikes. Suck it up and buy her a Minnie Mouse for Christmas f that what she wants

Walt Disney may have been a racist. But liking or not like Disney does not make up pro/anti American.

If you don't like Disney, get a secondhand on from e bay so no money is going to Disney

Some eople on here are indeed barking!

there are loads of toys that divide parents - barbie, pokemon, guns, anything with a keypad etc but you have to decide whether this is a phase of a nag thing and be prepared that if Father Christmas does not come up with the minnie mouse then you will have one v sulky 3 year old on your hands on christmas day. personally i pick my battles and not letting them have a toy (that they will soon grow out of) that i disapprove of isnt one them. food fads, temper tantrums, mobile phones at 6, facebook at 10 these are the real issues for me not disney.

Not having read the whole thread....

YAdefinitelyNBU at all.

Disney is evil. Must be kept away from the wee ones.

End of story.

woof!

YABU it's just a toy and a pretty innocuous one at that, a stuffed mouse with a dress on, get it for her so she can play minnies with her little friend, you are overthinking this. I would respect your point more if you cared enough to totally boycott disney but you admit to having other disney toys in the house so I don't know why you can't just get your DD the one she has asked for.

But no barney toys...oh no....the devil's spawn he is

Good idea pigletmania if it offends you to give money to them.

Unless it was something I reeeeeaaallly disapproved of, I would just get it.

I compromised on this with mine. I buy their Disney tat second hand from Ebay.

You're absolutely spot on, Christmas presents for your children aren't about what they want, they're about what you want. Go you.

could you get a mouse and put a dress on it

not a real mouse obviously

Would it help if I bought it so you are not giving Disney the money?

I soo remember the birthday when I craved a Sindy doll and asked for it. I got a fucking Basil Brush pyjama case.

I will buy it.

I thought Walt Disney was a Freemason?

I feel the same way about barbie. She has not and will not darken my doorstep. :o