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I’ve been called many things, but a “disgrace
to the forces of evil” made me stare
dumbly at her. I had helped her unlace
her bone corset, let down her crow-black hair,
bled the man, let her drink from the chalice.
What did she want? Her skin, with its green-fire
glow of a witch-queen, burned with her tigress
eyes, her four breasts. It wasn’t desire
I felt for my sister … much. After all,
evil is as evil does (I never
got that); she kept me around, her warm pet
good for snuggling with on cold nights. “Crawl
to me and make me cum, little brother.
I’ll drown you, fool. Amuse me. Make me wet.”
memories of my ghost sista 
Is that really from that clip? Looks like a Disney thing almos, except darker. Can’t imagine the Walt gettng that dark, in moving pictures or dialogue….but, one never knows.
Later…
That is something I found … somewhere. The good thing (and often bad) about the Internet is that you have so many people crafting and creating that you can find almost anything. Having not thought about Disney in at least two decades I saw the little animated picture and thought, “huh! I forgot how much the man loathed independent women.” The original movie of Sleeping Beauty is in color, whether or not those lines actually get spoken I don’t really remember (I suppose I’d need to re-watch it to find out, but that won’t happen any time soon). Cheers!
I was in a writing class and a super-feminist-man-chomper was going on about Dis once. Had never thought about it, not liking the Dis much. But yes, he seemed to have as much problems with femininity as J.Edgar did. Old women = danger…Young women = more danger…and his work was so formative for so many toddlers turned women haters.
Later…
“as J.Edgar did.” Haha! that’s wonderful! Yeah, I’m a little out of touch with the newer movies, but in the classic Dis’s all villains are older women who die in the end and all the princesses need men to rescue them (we won’t even get into the racism, like in Peter Pan where it is revealed that the reason that the “Red Man” is red is that he use to be white but was kissed one day and started blushing so hard he remained … red. Totally passed over my head as a child. Then there’s Song of the South with Uncle Tom who just loves being a slave, but we’ll leave that whole mess where it is)
Some of that racist stuff was just so common at the time, people just used it without thought…but later saw how hurtful their art was. Had a Black friend in Cleve Land who refused to read Twain because of Huck’s use of the “n” word. I kept telling her that he was probably the first to put a rounded Black figure in a book, and it got banned, an banned, and banned, and still is getting banned, but for different reasons. She still stuck to her Twain hating ways…couldn’t get over her one sticking point. And she was an intelligent, thoughtful, aware person who should have been able to recognize the chances he was taking. Oh well…
Later…
Ah, the n-word, that American term that has caused, and continues to cause, so much hate and pain in our world. I understand Twain’s bold stance and can certainly appreciate Huck’s epic adventure, but a lot of it has to do with being a white boy so for me at least the context is different (I can’t speak for anyone else on the subject, though) … it is a difficult subject, regardless.
I was looking over some info about banned books for a possible post. I saw the stuff librarians and politicians and religious leaders were writing about Twin…that he was dragging literature into the gutter by giving a Black man a voice, a personality that was worthy of compassion. They roasted him, and he wasn’t famous enough then to take chances like he did…but he did. Guts.
Later…
Yes, poor Mark. He certainly had cojones, as they say. And to think that that same sentiment that got him banned in his day — racist and hateful as is it was — is still alive today. Some times I think we’re advancing forward, and then other times it’s just “oi vey!” (as my ancestors on my dad’s side would say).