{"id":262150,"date":"2013-08-19T19:09:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/beeftony-justplainsomething-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:11:03","slug":"beeftony-justplainsomething-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/beeftony-justplainsomething-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-262150 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/beeftony-justplainsomething-2\/attachment\/262151\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m3mmexwzdP1r93hr6o1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m3mmexwzdP1r93hr6o1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m3mmexwzdP1r93hr6o1_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/beeftony-justplainsomething-2\/attachment\/262152\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m3mmexwzdP1r93hr6o2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m3mmexwzdP1r93hr6o2_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_m3mmexwzdP1r93hr6o2_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/beeftony.tumblr.com\/post\/58621326272\/justplainsomething-adrianestpierre-gaston\" target=\"_blank\">beeftony<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/justplainsomething.tumblr.com\/post\/58619945704\/adrianestpierre-gaston-really-is-the-most\" target=\"_blank\">justplainsomething<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/adrianestpierre.tumblr.com\/post\/46989650139\/gaston-really-is-the-most-terrifying-disney\" target=\"_blank\">adrianestpierre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and \u201cboys will be boys\u201d esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, the truly scary thing about <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em> isn\u2019t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it\u2019s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it\u2019s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don\u2019t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn\u2019t the only one who criticizes Belle for being bookish, either; the whole town says there must be something wrong with her. And her father gets carted off to a mental asylum for being just a little eccentric.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film\u2019s score and had a huge influence on the movie\u2019s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don\u2019t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them <em>both<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He\u2019s not angry, he\u2019s <em>sad<\/em>. He\u2019s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he <em>does<\/em>. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That\u2019s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you\u2019re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.<\/p>\n<p>Society rewards the bullies because we\u2019ve been brought up to believe that their victims don\u2019t belong. That if someone doesn\u2019t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is <em>wrong<\/em>. It\u2019s so much deeper than a standard \u201cbe yourself\u201d message, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s one of my favorite Disney movies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beeftony: justplainsomething: adrianestpierre: Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world. Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and \u201cboys will be boys\u201d esque. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/beeftony-justplainsomething-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[980,3614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262153,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262150\/revisions\/262153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}