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Disney’s New Christmas Movie Sexualizes Kids
Federalist ^ | NOVEMBER 28, 2023 | BY: ELEANOR BARTOW

Posted on 11/29/2023 7:31:06 AM PST by Red Badger

A boy gestures at another male and calls him ‘hottie’ and another boy ‘cute’ in Disney’s TV-PG family movie about Christmas.

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Disney is sexualizing kids and pushing LGBT identification even in a TV-PG family movie about Christmas.

At the 11:55 minute mark of “The Naughty Nine,” released on Nov. 22, Disney portrays the lead female character’s home: Her four siblings are opening gifts around a Christmas tree and one child tells another to go to “Dad.” Dad is shown standing alongside a much taller man, who has his arm around Dad’s shoulder, which he then lingeringly drapes along Dad’s back as they walk off. There’s no mom around. Just in case it’s not clear to the audience, later on they are referred to as “Dads.”

Portraying “two dads” as normal is one thing, but in another scene (at the 19:05 mark), Jon Anthony, a boy with gay mannerisms played by Deric McCabe, is selling clothing under his own designer label. To a potential buyer asking about an item, he gestures at another taller male and says, “I told that hottie over there I’d sell it to him for $200.”

Hollywood’s Christmas movies rarely include the “Christ” in “Christmas” anymore (please nudge my memory on when they last did), but to me this is a new low.

With this scene, Disney is sexualizing children and blurring the lines of what’s acceptable behavior. Later on, Jon also calls the male lead character Andy (played by Winslow Fegley) “cute,” which isn’t quite as sexual as “hottie,” but adds that element.

It’s not clear how old Jon’s character is supposed to be, but Andy is a fifth-grader and a couple of the “Naughty Nine” kids in the movie appear much younger than him. Fifth-graders are usually around 10 or 11. Maybe Jon’s a fifth-grader too, since he’s following a fifth-grader on a mission to see Santa, and kids don’t tend to take orders from younger kids. Either way, Jon is using sexually charged language with a fifth-grader and with little kids watching the movie. I know real fifth-graders who still believe in Santa and I cherish their innocence — and resent movie-makers who want to take it and sexualize them.

Did That Kid Just Hit On an Older Guy? There’s also the disturbing aspect that Jon’s character may have just hit on an older male when he called him “hottie.” Sure, maybe “Cute Teen Boy Pop-Up” (Aidan Miller), as the credits call him, is actually the same age (in which case Jon is a teen and he called a fifth-grader “cute” in a questionable way). But children viewing the movie would see that the “cute teen” is taller and more masculine, which could easily give them the impression that he is older. An adult wouldn’t assume the two are different in age just because of height and masculinity, but many kids would. So an impressionable young viewer might see a child using suggestive language with a more mature male, and could be encouraged to do the same. (Of course, with kids, just a year or two is significant in maturation.)

The actors’ actual ages don’t matter, it’s how children perceive them. McCabe appears to have recently turned 15 and Fegley is 14, but, again, playing a 10- or 11-year-old. Child actors often play a different age than their own.

Regardless of these details, this is a Christmas movie for kids and the sexual references are so unnecessary.

Christians Aren’t Hateful, They Just Don’t Want Sex Pushed on Kids I’m not sure how typical this is of Disney programming, because, like other Christians, I’ve tried to avoid many of Disney’s movies after they started to introduce more adult themes to kids.

Christians’ beliefs are based on the Bible and they don’t want movies pushing ideas they believe are wrong — especially on children. Anyone calling that hateful is being intolerant of Christians’ religious beliefs and arguably hateful themselves.

Jesus specifically talks about how wrong it is to lead children astray, and uses strong language to make his point:

If anyone causes one of these little ones — those who believe in me — to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. — Matthew 18:6

Disney Employees Say They Push ‘Gay Agenda’ We learned more about what’s really going on behind the scenes at Disney last year, when leaked audio showed a Disney producer boast about her efforts at “adding queerness to” children’s programming. “Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my, like, not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” said Latoya Raveneau, an executive producer for Disney Television Animation. “I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness. … No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.”

Another Disney employee, production coordinator Allen March, said in a video call that he had created “a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have the full breadth of expression [with] all of our gender non-conforming characters.”

Disney also vowed to fight Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, passed in 2022, which bars educators from instructing kindergarten through third-grade students about sexual ideology.

Conservative families looking for alternatives to Disney and the like should check out the new Bentkey and other companies.

As for the “Naughty Nine,” its trailer makes the movie look like it’ll be a fun adventure about nine kids storming the North Pole. Disney describes the film:

Mischievous fifth grader Andy finds himself without a visit or presents from Santa on Christmas morning. Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unfairly maligned, Andy pulls together a team of eight other “naughty listers” to help him execute an elaborate heist at the North Pole to get the presents they feel they deserve. Along the way, the group comes to realize that the very best way off the naughty list is to redirect their unique talents for good — instead of mischief.

If only Disney would use its power for good.

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Eleanor Bartow is the features editor at The Federalist. Bartow was editor-in-chief of the American Enterprise Institute’s magazine, an editor and investigative reporter at the Daily Caller, and a reporter for Congressional Quarterly. She received a Fulbright grant in journalism. Follow her on Twitter at @elliebartow.


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1 posted on 11/29/2023 7:31:06 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Disney continues to plumb the depths of depravity. One would think that there is a bottom limit, but they keep pushing the boundaries. It’s like every failure is an impetus to go deeper. Maybe someone should tell them they’re going the wrong direction.


2 posted on 11/29/2023 7:46:08 AM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: Spok

Maybe someone is, if you look at their earnings


3 posted on 11/29/2023 7:48:06 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Spok

Liberals NEVER, EVER equate their policies with their realities.

To them, if there is a ‘failure to achieve a goal’, then what is necessary is MORE LIBERALISM!

Logic and reason never enter into the equation.

Double down! Triple down! Quadruple down if necessary!

The beatings will continue until morale improves!..................


4 posted on 11/29/2023 7:51:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

put a chick in it - and make her gay ...


5 posted on 11/29/2023 7:53:52 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Red Badger

Yesterday’s porn is today’s Disney norm.


6 posted on 11/29/2023 7:55:40 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

Disgusting!


7 posted on 11/29/2023 8:10:25 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger

Anyone with sense abandoned Disney decades ago.


8 posted on 11/29/2023 8:12:19 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Red Badger

Disney has always been bad for our culture — even apart from its recent sexualizing of kids. Such as, by blurring the distinction between people and animals (hunting is killing “Bambi”). Encouraging kiddie entertainment that does not portray kids maturing into adults (the “Mikey Mouse Club”). Movies featuring magic.


9 posted on 11/29/2023 8:14:09 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Red Badger

Calling out the movie for the completely unnecessary and gratuitous homosexual references, fair enough.

But nothing about the main message of the movie plot i.e. if you don’t think you’re being rewarded fairly, the best way to remedy it is to go steal what you think you deserve?

Even if the kids end up realizing that stealing the presents they think they deserve is the wrong way to go (and it doesn’t really sound like it; it sounds more like they get sidetracked along the way and end up being “good” by accident rather than experiencing some kind of epiphany), there at least should have been a character at the beginning of the film pointing out that stealing presents from Santa isn’t the best way to get yourself off his Naughty List.


10 posted on 11/29/2023 8:28:06 AM PST by Little Pig
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To: Red Badger
A boy gestures at another male and calls him ‘hottie’ and another boy ‘cute’ in Disney’s TV-PG

This isn't "sexualizing". It's sodomizing.

11 posted on 11/29/2023 8:30:01 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

You’d think they’d learned from the flops of 2023 - but they keep pumping out degenerate movies aimed at kids - gender bending, etc.

Here are just a few of the flops from 2023:

Elemental – June 16, 2023

Budget: $250 million
Break Even: $500 million
Global Gross: $497 million
Deficit: -$1.5 million

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – June 30, 2023

Budget: $350 million
Break Even: $700 million
Global Gross: $384 million
Deficit: -$158 million

Haunted Mansion – July 28, 2023

Budget: $200 million
Break Even: $400 million
Global Gross: $118 million
Deficit: -$141 million

A Haunting in Venice – September 15, 2023

Budget: $100 million
Break Even: $200 million
Global Gross: $122 million
Deficit: -$39 million

The Creator – September 29, 2023

Budget: $120 million
Break Even: $240 million
Global Gross: $104 million
Deficit: -$68 million

The Marvels – November 10, 2023

Budget: $275 million
Break Even: $550 million
Global Gross: $250 million (estimate)
Deficit: -$150 million

Next Goal Wins – November 17, 2023

Budget: $25 million
Break Even: $50 million
Global Gross: $10 million (estimate)
Deficit -$20 million

Wish – November 22, 2023

Budget: $250 million
Break Even: $500 million
Global Gross: $150 million (estimate)
Deficit: -$175 million


12 posted on 11/29/2023 8:40:28 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Bon of Babble

Ideology trumps money until you run out of other peoples’ money................


13 posted on 11/29/2023 8:42:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

only way to hurt the beast is not to feed it money. Disney is no longer normie or white friendly, dump it.


14 posted on 11/29/2023 9:03:20 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Would never give them a penny, but propaganda seems to be their motivation, at whatever cost.


15 posted on 11/29/2023 9:14:13 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

lots of people think Disney is family friendly because they think back to past and assume. It’s just another sign of distraction and non thinking.


16 posted on 11/29/2023 9:38:34 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Red Badger

This is why we dropped Disney and got rid of the TV.

This garbage is not allowed in the house.


17 posted on 11/29/2023 9:55:58 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Red Badger
"Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unfairly maligned, Andy pulls together a team of eight other “naughty listers” to help him execute an elaborate heist at the North Pole to get the presents they feel they deserve. "

So Disney is encouraging yute's to "Flash Mob" and "Loot" (Santa's Workshop) for whatever they think they "Deserve".

18 posted on 11/29/2023 9:58:18 AM PST by guest7
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To: Tell It Right

I’m stealing that!


19 posted on 11/29/2023 10:21:48 AM PST by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: Red Badger

There are far better Disney movies for conservative Christians to watch, like “The Chronicles Of Narnia” trilogy.


20 posted on 11/29/2023 10:24:00 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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