What girls shouldn’t be taught
Helen has the bit that Pixar took out.
Update: This is a storyboard, not the finished work. I thought the sketchiness was a stylistic choice, derp. H/t Sackbut
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Helen has the bit that Pixar took out.
Update: This is a storyboard, not the finished work. I thought the sketchiness was a stylistic choice, derp. H/t Sackbut
I have no idea what I just saw. Maybe my old brain is ill-suited for this “Pixar” shit.
Yeah mine hates it too. The last bit was completely meaningless.
I like the art style of the storyboard. The sound is meaningless, I’m sure it would be replaced by dialogue and regular background music and sound. And of course it needs the finished art. I can see it as a representation of a kid who is different and doesn’t fit in, trying to be helpful to someone in the restroom and ending up scaring the person, then collapsing and calling Dad. The problem is if course that this is a boy in the girls’ restroom, not just an awkward kid.
This is just a storyboard of one segment of an episode. What was cut was an entire episode focused on this character. The character is still part of the show, but is not featured. I gather you could watch the whole series and not notice that this character is male, except for this one episode, because he’s just a background character.
Oh, duh, I didn’t realize it was a storyboard. Thanks for clarifying.
In Australia, there’s a popular soapie, Neighbours. Neighbours was pestered by trans actor, Georgie Stone into having a trans character on the show. Stone also consulted heavily on storylines. Among the first storylines were Stone getting the schoolgirls to demand he have access to the girls bathroom, and Stone nervously coming out to a prospective love interest who takes it all in his stride and swears Stone is “still the prettiest girl here”.
There’s so much of this cultural messaging telling girls to budge up, shift over, be nice, make room, make sure he’s comfortable, even if it’s at your expense.
That sounds extremely annoying.
There is dialog for this scene that flashes at the bottom in very tiny text for a split second. I’m guessing the storyboard is something you’d normally scroll through on your own, so you’d then take the time to read the dialog, but whoever turned it into a video just has the dialogue appear for a frame or two, so it’s impossible to read unless you pause the video.
The gist is a trans girl on a co-ed softball team is unsure which bathroom to use but gets pulled into the girls’ bathroom by a team mate. Things seem to go well, but when helping a young girl wash food off her hands and cast (“she” tells the young girl she doesn’t want to get ants in her cast), “she” catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror and imagines “herself” as a man and panics.
“She” then talks to her dad on the phone, which cheers “her” up until the dad refers to “her” as “my son”.
Then “her” coach finds “her” and tells “her” “she’s” always welcome on the team and they’re all there for “her”. People have interpreted this as grooming kids to bond with adult males, but I think they didn’t read the dialogue so didn’t understand it was the coach.
Good for Disney dropping this. Their explanation that parents want to decide when to discuss such things is more than reasonable.