Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Pirates Sell Wenches, Not Chickens! What Would Walt Think?

     Well Disney did it, they gave in to the whiners and changed the "Red Head" scene. Now they have a woman there and they are selling chickens, paintings and other non-piraty items. Yes she says "its the rum they want." and instead of shouting "who wants the redhead." The pirates shout "we want the run." but, it took several times for me to catch that. The thing that caught my eye were the chickens, painting and such.

     Pirates are swashbuckling, ransacking, looting and stealing sorts, not so nice sort of folks, they do not sell chickens. That just takes away their roughness.  They also now have the wenches selling items in the auction. No wait, is this really what Walt wanted? Is this what he saw? I do not think it is. This is not his vision.

    When he was introducing his new attraction he even mentions that the pirates have all of the rum but they are most interested in the wench auction. This was Walt's vision, he found it amusing and so do many of those who love what Walt gave to us.  I really do not think he is happy that the pirates no longer sell wenches.

    I really do not even know why Disney did this, I don't know what group they were catering too but Walt wanted his pirates to be tough and fierce. Chickens and paintings are not fierce. Selling the wenches was a part of Walt's vision, his park, his attraction. I do not believe he would be happy that part of his vision is gone.

Clip of Walt on Pirates of the Caribbean


4 comments:

  1. When I went to Disney World I laughed about the "wenches" being sold by the pirates too.

    However, since then I have learned that Human Trafficking is a bigger problem now than when slavery was legal!

    The "wenches"sold by pirates are slaves being offered to be raped for the profit of the pirates (pimps).

    People who pay for the Trafficked humans are paying to rape a slave.

    Pirates have been "Disnified" into cartoon images, but sex slavery can't be.

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    1. Looking at it that way it makes sense but I am not sure that was the reasoning....but if it was then hmmmm

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  2. Yes, it was anti Human Trafficking organizations and Survivors that approached Disney about changing it.

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