Until after Ashman conveniently died of AIDS, allowing Katzenberg to take the pitched script and eviscerate it, demanding a total rewrite in a meeting Ashman's colleagues seriously refer to as "Black Friday" One of his notes being "86 the mom, the mom's a zero"
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In the final version not only does Jasmine have a living dad and dead mom, but Aladdin 3 reveals Aladdin's dad is also alive, thus giving this franchise TWO Disney Dead Moms, in a complete reversal of Ashman's intent
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In fact the whole thing that some find controversial about Aladdin, that he doesn't feel bad at all about being a criminal, is down to Katzenberg, who thought Proud of Your Boy" with Aladdin desperately wanting to be respectable to save his mother from shame was emasculating
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Anyway, the Broadway stage version of Aladdin restores "Proud of Your Boy", splitting the difference by having Aladdin sing it to his dead mom's spirit after a personal epiphany, and that restoration is the main justification of the show's existence
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Anyway, fun fact Gavin McInnes apparently heard this song and was incensed by it, seeing it as emblematic of the emasculation and worthlessness of millennial masculinity, and founded the alt-right "Proud Boys" in direct response to this song and named after it
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See, a *real man* would've stayed defiant and pissed after Prince Achmed calls Aladdin a shame to his family and his ancestors, instead of brought to his knees by shame over it and singing a sappy ballad
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It's part of Disney's liberal agenda trying to get disaffected young white men to blame themselves for their own problems, etc Sigh History, it rhymes
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Holy shit. I mean, the generally underlying principles are not-surprising-but-frustrating-etc-etc., but the details of how the adaptation and naming convention of said racist group etc were all unknown to me. Wild stuff. I'm gonna go fall down an Internet reading hole now.
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Yeah it's really striking how controversial the idea of a son seriously feeling bad about hurting his mother apparently is It's like for your typical misogynist this is the most emasculating emotion imaginable
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The really bizarre part about that is that it's literally a stereotype that the big tough masculine guy loves his mom and would kill anyone who would threaten her. These people took the flattest stereotype and cut out the only thing that gave it any sort of depth.
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That's getting mad at *someone else* hurting your mom, not *you* apologizing for hurting your mom
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Easy mistake to think the stereotype is about caring about your mom a lot and not feeling ownership over every woman in your life.
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