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 “boys will be boys” esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.

Yeah, the truly scary thing about Beauty and the Beast isn’t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it’s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it’s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don’t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn’t 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.

Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s 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’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.

Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s 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 does. 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’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.

Society rewards the bullies because we’ve been brought up to believe that their victims don’t belong. That if someone doesn’t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is wrong. It’s so much deeper than a standard “be yourself” message, and that’s why it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.

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shout out to everyone with sensory processing disorders

asahikin:

to those of us who have trouble realizing when we are hungry or thirsty, and subsequently neglect to nourish ourselves

to those of us who don’t realize how much force we are using when we are squeezing or pushing things

to those of us who are overly ticklish due to our heightened tactile senses, who get made fun of and tickled because we seem like a joke to others

to those of us who are overly sensitive to pain, and those of us who don’t notice pain

to those of us who feel nauseated from certain odors that other people don’t seem to notice

to those of us who easily get carsick or seasick or airsick

to those of us who have to ask others to repeat what they said again and again, and we still don’t understand what they said

to those of us who have trouble noticing and recognizing dangerous smells like smoke or noxious hazards

to those of us who cry about everything, and those of us who seem to have blunted emotions

to those of us whose bodies don’t properly regulate temperature

to those of us who are seen as clumsy because we frequently drop things, have trouble with coordination, and are accident prone

to those of us who hate to be barefoot, and those of us who cannot stand to wear socks or shoes

to those of us who have to hum or vocalize in order to concentrate on a task

We’re all important, and we all deserve acceptance, patience, and love. I hope you all have a wonderful day. No matter how much others try to invalidate you because of your disorders, you are valid and they are wrong.

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Isn’t it weird to think that every person you walk by has a past they may or may not be proud of and a family they might be close to or far from and a lover they’re either with or apart from and a name and a personality, and they might be having the greatest day of their life or the worst day? We probably walk past hundreds of people a day and never once stop to think what they’re going through, what their life may be like. We’re too focused on our own.

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