“Cringy” Multifandom Blog MANY SPOILERS

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Frankly, despite that the only message Zootopia presents its audience is "cops good" and "stereotypes bad," it is FULL of stereotypes used for laughs. The fat comedic relief character loves food, Judy's whole family is rural, but everyone has a perfect middle American accent and only the mean bully character has a thick southern accent (he is redeemed as an adult, but its only to make a very in-your-face point about how People Can Change), the little cute fennec fox has a deep voice with a """"""thug"""""""" accent (haha cute little creature is actually scary Black man coded!!!!), the weasel criminal has a stereotypical lower class NYC accent + the Italian-American coded characters are in the mafia and only exist to be gangsters

On the note about the mafia characters: I also realized during this that Judy is, canonically, a dirty cop. Like its so blatant its insane???? She literally takes a witness to be tortured (threatened with death) at the hands of organized crime she is buddy-buddy with, and in that scene the crime lord says she is going to be the godmother of his grandchild (formalizing their connection with one another). She is by definition a dirty cop, who uses a personal connection to organized crime as a way to get witnesses tortured into giving over information. Which is also hilarious given that we are also meant to believe that there is corruption in Zootopia that goes all the way to the mayor, BUT that the police department is completely uninvolved and the chief has no idea. You know, famously how political corruption always works!

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

It didn’t register for me until recently that my experiences of being forced to strip naked multiple times at the mental hospital to be ‘checked’ when I was 14 was sexual assault, because the people who did it were nurses/doctors who clearly didn’t find me sexually attractive but instead used it as a form of humiliation and control towards children they deemed as ‘unruly’ and ‘uncooperative’ (ie. children who asked to be treated like people). I thought only people who fit into this idea of a child attracted pedo could be child sexual abusers, so I thought my experience didn’t count.

my stepfather would openly sexually harass me and my siblings at dinner while also loving the fantasy of killing pedophiles. whether he personally found our abuse sexually gratifying was frankly irrelevant to whether it traumatized us. whether he would be considered a pedophile or not doesn't change that he committed sexual abuse of children

The Doctor needs a companion, that is a fact.

They can’t travel alone, it’s twists them, they need someone to stop them, to steady them. That’s where the companions come in. The problem is the doctor is addicting the more time the companions spend with him the more they become him, they start acting more recklessly and overestimating their abilities and their capability to always survive, because ,hey if they doctor can leap straight into battle with nothing but his wits and a sonic screwdriver, so can they.

They start losing that part of their humanity that tells them to feel scared, to not just leap into battle as if they are invincible because they are not, They are human, they can die, they are not invincible and while they can get close they can never be exactly like him.

And the worst part is, I think he likes it, when they become more like him when he is just about to have someone who fully understands him because they are just like him but then he loses them.

They change themselves to the point that they are no longer, what he needs, a human companion to steady him because at the end of the day the doctor doesn’t need someone exactly like him, he needs someone to steady him and to stop him.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

And like... you do get that that is kinda insane, right?

Because this is something that so often leads to suffering. And I am saying this as someone disabled, who had so many issues due to this in his childhood.

Just three examples: when I was 7, I was supposed to get checked for autism. My mother did not want an autistic child. Since she just could have a "neurotypical" child by refusing diagnosis, she did just that.

When I was 12, my mother had decided I needed a certain plastic surgery (one that had a minor health benefit, but still was largely a beauty thing). I did not want it. I really, really did not want it. We still went through almost the entire process until thankfully there was a doctor who went: "Wait, this is elective. I am refusing to do this on a child that does not want it."

And when I was 14 my mother refused to get me to the hospital when I had severe food poisoning. She refused me hospital treatment for almost two weeks. By the time I got actually taken to the hospital I was almost dead.

And here is the thing: all of this should just not happen. The doctor when I was 12 was cool, but... he refused to do the surgery because he had the right to make a conscience call. Legally my mother was in the right to force me into that elective surgery. And that just should not be the case.

A lot of children die and suffer due to their legal inability to consent - or refuse consent - to medical treatments. And I wish y'all would understand that.