Pan Mishandler

Last week Disney released the trailer for the latest in their interminable series of live action remakes of their classic animated films, Peter Pan & Wendy.

At one point in the trailer, Wendy encounters a motley group of male & female urchins and realizes they're supposed to be the Lost Boys. She says, "But you're not all boys!" One of girls utters a clever comeback, hissing, "SO?"

Well, that explained the situation, and definitely put stodgy old Wendy in her place!

Clearly the filmmakers are button-bursting proud of this scene, as it appears just twenty four seconds into the trailer! It's a painfully obvious bit of virtue signaling, as they subvert everyone's expectations in order to stick it to the patriarchy or something.

I'm not gonna waste my time complaining about this nonsense, as this is just the way things are in the hellscape that passes for our current society.

I do want to point out though that Disney's transparent attempt at representation isn't quite the victory they intended. 

See, in J.M. Barrie's original story, the Lost Boys were male babies who "fell out of their prams when their nurses were looking the other way." If the babies weren't claimed in seven days, they were sent to Neverland. 

Peter Pan himself explained to Wendy that there were no "Lost Girls," because they're far to clever to ever fall out of their prams.

The book was actually an early example of female empowerment, pointing out the fact that girls are smarter and tend to mature earlier than boys. 

Disney's new film clumsily and hamfistedly undoes all that, throwing girls into the group simply for the sake of representation. In fact I'm betting the screenwriters never actually bothered to read the source material, else they'd have nixed the girl Lost Boys.

That's the problem with SJWs and the twitter mob. They're so dead set on diversity and inclusion that they don't stop to think about whether it makes any sense or not. And it often doesn't!

One more movie I can safely ignore! Thanks, Disney!