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

[pictish]

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 have always absolutely loathed Disney, and probably passed this loathing onto my children (now grown up) as they never asked for anythign Disney. When we did Florida a few years ago we did not visit any of the Disney Parks....

Oh, and I also hate Pantomime and all things fancy dress for good measure!

It is their choice but fairly irrelevant to Pictish who wanted to know very specifically if other people who hated Disney let their children have Disney stuff if they really wanted it.

Hmm but doesn't really seem all that relevant here as the OP said her older children already have disney toys, as I said in a previous post if OP felt that strongly about disney then I would probably have agreed she WNBU to not want a minnie in the house if her house was a disney free zone but it just seems a bit mean to me to let them have one disney toy but not another if that's the main thing they want for christmas. Anyway, doesn't really matter now as OP has taken opinions on board and is buying the offending toy.

Christ, after reading that, I really want to get her a Minnie Mouse!

What the actual fuck is wrong with Disney anyway? I've heard they treat their staff very well. And Disneyland/world is fantastic.

Oh my lord, what a thread! I can't believe that blikin' disney could get people so clenched up...if only people got up in arms like this over something of actual importance.

Hope you buy her the mouse. It really is just a toy.

To be clear, I'm no keener on the 'you are over thinking, Disney is kovely' than on the 'it's your money buy what you like' line. I just think if it's fairly harmless and not prohibitively expensive, it's nice to buy them the thing they actually want.

YABU, but you know that anyway.

Am finding it a bit ironic that some here who are all about restricting toys for the good, as they don't provide a strong model for their children, don't see why it's good to accept your children are people who may have different ideas and perceptions to you.

It's a toy. She likes the toy. She will probably like it for all of 5 minutes before she wants or likes something else.

You can't use children to make political or feminist or whatever else statements (in general not just to this thread) by not buying them something. All you are doingIs being unnecessary really... if it's what your dd really wants I'd get it.

Trust me when they get to 5/7/9 and want a facebook page because everyone else in their class has one already that's a far bigger issue than a Minnie mouse toy!!! (For the record I've said no to facebook).

If my DS1 could pick up on the inherent racism apparent in Disney films when he was just 7yo, and ask me whether Mr. Disney was a racist (he was), I don't think much of Disney films.

However, I have not refused to get my DC's anything Disney, but allowed them to make their own minds up.

Once he realised that yes, Walt Disney was a racist, and we had spoken about it, he has not asked for anything Disney-related since.

Job done.

Yes, I put up with Disney shite in the meantime, but I feel things like this can help you to explore topics like racism with younger children. Worked for me.

Now if only 21mo DS3 would realise that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is, in fact, a pile of poo, I'd be happy!

Op is going to be inundated with Minnie mouse, I wanted to give her the one dd des not use anymore

Yello your dd might not realise now when she is young but when she is Oder she might, that all her friends have xyx and she cannot have it. There are a few posts on here and other related threads of adults who were denied certain branded toys, they resented it later in life or felt sad about it.

Couthy did your ds decide that for himself or did you tell him Disney was racist

Dd fell in love with Mickey Mouse when she was a few months old. I'd leave the Disney channel on whilst I did the washing and she'd lay on her play mat and laugh her heart out at him. She was besotted with her Mickey soft toy until she was about 2.5. Then she grew out of it.

I don't mind Disney, but their toys are way over priced. That Mickey story telling toy is about £60. £60 for what? He tells 5 stories and that's it! I can put on a Mickey voice and tell 100's of different stories up until the day I die for free.

Nope, he ASKED me if Mr. Disney was racist. He said he felt the films never showed African, middle eastern or Indian characters as the Hero or Heroine, and he thought that was racist, and he wanted to know if Mr. Disney was a racist.

I wasn't going to lie to him when he'd come to those conclusions himself. He pointed out that even Aladdin was much 'whiter' than whatsisface that is the baddie in that movie. He pointed out that the ONLY Disney film he felt had a hero or heroine that was not whiter than the villain was Mulan.

Don't ask, my DS1 is a lovely but slightly unusual boy!

He's 10 now, and is interested in Politics, Greek Mythology and how to eliminate discrimination...

He kept going on about how even the Siamese cats in Lady & the Tramp were portrayed as villains.

Can't you get your DD into www.beano.com/retro-beano/minnie-the-minx why not trade that wet old mouse for something more feisty and interesting, takes no shit and knows how to use a catapult. she also likes climbing trees, pissing off authority and wearing ace jumpers.

I thought I was alone [weepingwithjoy]

Couldn't agree more Mini!

Wow he is vey intelligent Couthy, don't know most children of that age who would make those type of observations

Mini that was me, I was more of a Beano/dandy girl and modelled myself on Dennis the Mennace. I even told my dad to make me a caterpault which he did

If you know buying your dd this stuffed toy will bring her such happiness WHY would you not? She is three, you can make her Christmas wish come true. What mother would deny that? Seeing her so excited Christmas morning with her little Minnie will bring you joy too.

Did you know that walt was abused as a child and belonged to the 33 degree free masons! there is also some suggestion that Walt was not a benign uncle but a paedophile. Anyway he was very strange, he wielded a lot of power and was in good company with US presidents and bankers. The Disney castle was modelled after the castle of some geezer called Prince Ludwig who was a member of the illuminati.......and friend of Walt.

Prince Luwig II died in 1886. Walt Disney was born in 1901. He visited Ludwig's castle on a European tour with his wife, (as do thousands of people every year, its a huge tourist attraction, together with som neighbouring castles). It's hardly surprising that Cinderella's castle is based on a Bavarian one.

I feel your pain OP, my DS1's GF is a Disney Store cast member........ (I will need therapy, as the house slowly fills up with crud I can't really abide).

TBF, she hasn't inflicted any plush rodents on us yet, but I'm still finding the glittery mickey-heads she put in the wrapping paper last Christmas in very strange places.

I know what you mean, and DS2's MMCH obsession (only on YOUTUBE in our house) makes me twitch. But strangely the batteries in the lap-top seem to go flat very quickly when Mickey and his weird little gang is involved.

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Look OP, if I had to put up with two years of Thomas the Tank Engine, a year of Ben 10 and another year of Fireman Sam, then you have to put up with a short Disney fixation. I'm not suffering alone!

I'm no fan of any of them, but then I'm a 42 yr old woman, and not a small boy. We like different stuff. They still got what they wanted for Christmas.