{"id":1548125,"date":"2022-07-11T07:36:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548125"},"modified":"2022-07-11T07:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:36:39","slug":"baymax-is-just-a-bunch-of-patronizing-public-service-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baymax-is-just-a-bunch-of-patronizing-public-service-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Baymax!\u2019 Is Just A Bunch Of Patronizing Public Service Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaymax-is-just-a-bunch-of-patronizing-public-service-announcements%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2022-07-08T110747.816.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What\u2019s up with Disney\u2019s obsession with tampons?<\/p>\n<p>Remember \u201cBig Hero 6\u201d? Two weeks ago, Disney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lcYPrMk12zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> its long-anticipated sequel to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z3biFxZIJOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beloved<\/a> 2014 animated superhero film onto Disney Plus, and it\u2019s gosh-awful. \u201cBaymax!\u201d is the illegitimate love child of the most virulent form of corporate virtue signaling and the equitable bigotry we refer to as \u201cwokeness.\u201d With \u201cBaymax!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1541924258326011906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything<\/a> people like about family films, superhero flicks, and good taste has been replaced with brain-dead Fortune 500 PSAs about female hygiene and why you shouldn\u2019t swallow your earbuds. More proof that Disney doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/15\/disneys-turning-red-is-an-embarrassing-and-somewhat-offensive-allegory-about-menstruation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">understand<\/a> the first thing about its consumers, especially why so many families are either angry or tapping out from Disney forever.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Baymax!\u2019 Flops After Successful \u2018Big Hero 6\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBaymax!\u201d follows \u201cBig Hero 6,\u201d this time with six short films about 10 minutes apiece. If you don\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/big_hero_6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remember<\/a><em> <\/em>the original, I heartily recommend it. The film revolves around a teenage Hiro Hamada, who receives a giant inflatable medical robot from his late brother, code name Baymax, and how he and his team of young tech-bros slowly become a superhero team and overcome their own worst fears while doing it. When it came out in 2014, \u201cBig Hero 6\u201d earned more than $657.8 million worldwide to become the top-earning animated feature film that year. Yet despite that success (and it being a Marvel movie no less), Disney never delivered a true sequel. Until last week, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers like me, who loved the original, were left confused and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/01\/baymax-shows-remorseless-disney-plans-to-keep-pummeling-kids-with-its-sexual-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frustrated<\/a> with \u201cBaymax!\u201d when instead of more adventures with their favorite robot Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, they found a series of boring lectures from a cast of cardboard cut-outs who are unable to comprehend the back of a box of Kotex without it being explained to them by one of those car-dealership inflatables.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Patronization in Every Episode<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve been here before, gang, and recently. Think back to March, remember \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/15\/disneys-turning-red-is-an-embarrassing-and-somewhat-offensive-allegory-about-menstruation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turning Red<\/a>\u201d? \u201cBaymax!\u201d is a worse, dumbed-down version of that insipid menstruation allegory, but without the cool fantasy elements and giant panda monster. You get more wokeness, more pandering, more highlighting of feminine hygiene products, and less emphasis on fun.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean? In episode three, \u201cSofia,\u201d Baymax assists a young girl in dealing with her first period. Thus, in a fully budgeted cartoon made for children, we get a scene with Baymax shopping in a crowded feminine hygiene aisle at a local pharmacy. Baymax is paralyzed with indecision from so many choices, until a helpful group of men and women, including one trans person, all excitedly recommend their favorite menstruation products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grown men, standing together. In a tampon aisle. Discussing their favorite brand of tampons, as we all know men are wont to do\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more. In the episode \u201cCass,\u201d Baymax must instruct the hot aunt of the series about why you shouldn\u2019t work when you have a broken leg. In \u201cMbita,\u201d a fish food truck cook must be <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/07\/04\/disney-shamelessly-pushes-identity-politics-in-recently-released-big-hero-6-spin-off-series-baymax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> what an allergic reaction is and instructed to recognize his gay attraction to the applesauce food cart broheim. In another, \u201cYachi,\u201d Baymax teaches a cat why it\u2019s a bad idea to swallow an earbud. And in my favorite case of \u201cwhat were they thinking\u201d in the episode \u201cKiko,\u201d Baymax tries to forcibly remove an older woman\u2019s fear of water via unwanted desensitization until she realizes her fear was about the emotional connection to the pool all along.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disney, the family company.<\/p>\n<h2>Disney Is Out of Touch with Its Audience<\/h2>\n<p>So why pay attention to yet another Disney Plus disaster? Because it\u2019s instructive of how Disney doesn\u2019t understand who their audience really is. We often assume <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/07\/big-businesss-alliance-with-the-political-left-is-turning-into-a-major-strategic-blunder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wokeness<\/a> is political in its aims or motivated by malice. But sometimes \u2014 as seen with \u201cBaymax!\u201d \u2014 we have the clearest evidence yet that the source may be blind rot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, with \u201cBig Hero 6,\u201d Disney understood that to get family dollars, they had to make quality entertainment. In 2022, Disney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/disney-relies-on-media-echo-chamber-and-cries-of-racism-to-boost-obi-wan-kenobi-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">believes<\/a> that to empty your wallet, they must insult and infantilize you. It\u2019s not just that Disney wants to control your kids; they don\u2019t know who your kids are. Nor do executives at Disney understand that 99 percent of human beings do not want to talk about menstruation or other bodily functions no matter how important destigmatizing said functions might be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaymax!\u201d is currently sitting on a perfect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/baymax\/s01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100 percent rating<\/a> from Rotten Tomatoes, which neither \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/stranger_things\/s04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stranger Things 4<\/a>\u201d nor \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/citizen_kane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Citizen Kane<\/a>\u201d enjoys. So Disney is pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/baymax-transgender-tampon-scene-lgbtq-under-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overtime<\/a> to get its <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">shills<\/span> entertainment journalist friends to make sure this show doesn\u2019t fail. Yet, the audience\u2019s reactions seem to be either bored or angry. I have yet to read a single positive post on Facebook, hear word of mouth, or read any positive reviews from audience members on sites like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic outside of the corporate boilerplate bots that are easier to pick out than red paint on a white picket fence. People do not like this show. Folks on the left pretend they do, but they don\u2019t watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaymax!\u201d should be avoided like the plague. It\u2019s a bad show because it has all the subtlety of a B-episode of Captain Planet while it forces a wheat-thin and ugly morality upon its viewers with storytelling as deep as an evaporated puddle. It\u2019s a bad show because it\u2019s been created by a mega-corporation that thinks an average family of five can afford a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7mtdxhdCRBQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$5,000-a-night vacation<\/a> at their Star Wars hotel. Yes, big corporations do insult their audiences \u2014 not necessarily because they hate them but because they don\u2019t know who they are. If Disney fails to learn this lesson, the entertainment giant and others like it should expect many more parents to turn their backs on them, maybe for good.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Peter Pischke is a journalist and health and disability reporter. He can usually be found manning the Happy Warrior Substack and Podcast, providing commentary on news and nerdery of the day. You can find him on Twitter: @happywarriorp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s up with Disney\u2019s obsession with tampons? Remember \u201cBig Hero 6\u201d? 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