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Beyond Snow White: Fandom Must Stop Falling for the Hate
Disney’s Snow White can no longer “hurt” Disney Adults’ childhoods. But if fans in general don’t want their communities perceived as the worst, something still needs to change.
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Ironically, many of these properties that fans claim to love have had more complex and frankly liberal, if not occasionally radically left, ideologies. What is the X-Men if not a naked metaphor for supporting, protecting, and celebrating marginalized minority groups? Ryan Reynolds’ hero even cracked in Deadpool 2 that “[we’re] a dated metaphor for racism in the ‘60s!” The Matrix and its red pills were always a fairly overt metaphor for disengaging with the conservative hegemony of the status quo and remaking your body to match the person you are in your mind’s eye—an allegory conceived of by two trans women directors. And even the retroactively adored Star Wars prequels features the on-the-nose anti-fascist line, “So this is how democracy dies. With thunderous applause.”
What’s changed is that when Len Wein and Dave Cockrum created Storm in 1970s Marvel Comics, there was no online fandom being purposefully divided and provoked along racist fault lines, and heteronormative audiences likely didn’t pick up on the trans subtext in The Matrix, even after the directors very publicly transitioned. There was no YouTube algorithm to be gamed; no TikTok audience to be exploited; no ad revenues to be garnered by finding another witch to burn, be it Zoe Quinn, Daisy Ridley, Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Halle Bailey, Amandla Stenberg, or now Rachel Zegler.
Yes, at only age 21 Zegler said in a way that proved too candid for self-described “Disney Adults” that the original Snow White was “extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world.” A more PR-seasoned figure with extensive media-training might have found a delicate way to state the same truth. Yet true it remains that few parents want to take their daughters to a movie in 2025 where the heroine spends the whole film cleaning for seven guys and dreaming of a stranger to come marry her on the spot. However you view that summary of a 1937 film, though, these three-year-old comments were never the heretical sacrilege our internet John Hathornes make them out to be.
But that’s almost mooted now. The movie’s media life cycle is winding down, and as it turned out the film wasn’t very good. Meanwhile Zegler and her considerable talent are off to West End where she can no longer “hurt your childhood”—especially if she stays away from a certain type of fandom’s media going forward, which is evermore perceived in the public these days as being a tedious echo chamber of man-children whining about any performer who is neither white or male. Indeed, if you do take enjoyment in anything associated with “fandom,” as likely any writer or reader on this site is wont to do, then you must reckon with the things you love as growing tainted, their legacies increasingly perverted and redefined.
Because rest assured, the bad-faith actors will find another target soon. There must always be another. Which is a formidable deterrent for any talented filmmaker or actor of color who might otherwise want to play in these sandboxes. So if you love superheroes, Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, or just O.G. Disney fairytales, do yourself a favor. Don’t fall for it. Don’t watch four-hour YouTube essays about how a movie ruined your youth. Go outside, and if need be, put away the childish things when their latest movie or TV show makes you mad. It might be the only way to preserve them for the next generation.
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