Disneyphobia

English Etymology From en Disney phobia. Noun - The dislike of The Walt Disney Company. en Ray Washington And then there are those who haven’t been to Disney World The News Tribune Fort Pierce, Fla./Port St. Lucie, Fla. 26 September 1982 B13 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/778963981/ Harriette Hunt of Port St. Lucie traced her Disneyphobia back through the years. “I’ve never liked Disney,” Harriette Hunt explained. en Peter J. Boyer Katzenberg’s seven-year itch: Showtown superstition has it that Jeffrey Katzenberg’s winning streak at Disney is over, but the studio boss is determined to beat the odds Vanity Fair November 1991 146 https://archive.org/details/ace_comics_western_adventures_03_202012/vanityfair54sepnewy/page/n723/mode/1up 3 Add to these the writers who’ve seen their prices drop and their work “managed” beyond recognition, the directors who have been stripped of their autonomy, the agents who have been left sitting alone at the negotiating table, and the long list of litigants who’ve felt the heat of Disney’s legendarily voracious legal team, and you have a fairly large population of Disneyphobes. Last spring, the conclusion to a pair of brutal alley fights with the Muppets and Peggy Lee moved Disneyphobia from the back tables at Mortons into the mainstream of public opinion. en w:Alex Beam Eek! A mouse! w:The Boston Globe 241 99 8 April 1992 19 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/440071014/ Comments one French writer bemused by the outbreak of Disneyphobia: “We’ve never really forgiven the Americans for liberating us.” en The Disneyphobes w:Richmond Times-Dispatch 145th year 223 Richmond, Va. 11 August 1995 A14 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/832614412/ Strange affliction, Disneyphobia — and not very flattering. The dark pronouncements about Disney’s purchase of ABC contain an element of condescension; Disney’s products have widespread appeal, making them easy targets for snobs. The company also enjoys considerable success, which attracts the enmity of liberals who resent winners because winners have no need for liberalism’s pet virtue: compassion. en Landscape Architecture 1997 26 The issues of control and corporatism in community development that Beardsley raises deserve serious debate with less pop Disneyphobia and a little more historical professional perspective. en John Anderson When That Outwageous Bunny Was Bad w:Newsday 57 191 12 March 1997 B11 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/726114388/ The 12-cartoon, 90-minute program, beginning Friday at the Cinema Village (22 E. 12th St., 212-924-3363, Manhattan), includes some truly outrageous racial stereotypes, sexist imagery, xenophobia and even Disney[-]phobia: “Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs” a parody of “Snow White,” has some terrific animation but is rampant with racist cliches. en Matthew d’Ancona Disney as the New Shakespeare w:Ottawa Citizen 26 October 1999 A16 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/466550883/ One explanation for the strength of this Disneyphobia is that the vast majority of film critics do not like movies that are not obviously difficult and complicated. A more general reason for Disneyphobia is that the middle class seems naturally inclined to the Stoic error that enjoyment is incompatible with edification. en Morris B. Holbrook w:Marketing Theory 1 December 2001 139 Times Square, Disneyphobia, HegeMickey, The Ricky Principle, and the downside of the entertainment economy: it’s fun-dumb-mental en Susan Reinhardt Facing my fear: Doing Disney with the crowds w:Asbury Park Press 8 December 2004 18 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144407117/ I had all but made peace with my Disneyphobia until one day last week while wandering through Target hunting a bath mat. a hoss of a woman screeched into her cell phone, rattling the lamps in the light fixture aisle. “1 we thought we’d run on down to Disney for a few days.” She had uttered the worst word possible: Disney. I fear it like a child scared of spooks under a bed. We have lucked out in the Disney department, thanks to the fact that Myrtle Beach, S.C., has Lazy Rivers and plenty of stucco’d and plastic wonders to entertain the children. Even in my in-laws do Disney every other year or so, and they’re almost 100. How come they can withstand 11 hours of driving that boring old highway fighting traffic, then checking into a crowded motel packed with obnoxious parents and hacking children? en Susan Reinhardt Football game injected me with a dose of culture shock and an eye full of hoochie-coochie w:Asheville Citizen-Times 30 August 2005 D1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/200656325/ The entire experience was more overwhelming than a case of Disney-phobia. I’d just as soon hit four theme parks than ever return to a high school football game where rivals are playing and the teens are out en masse. en Liberty 2008 1 Jon Harrison copes with Disneyphobia en Jonathan Gornall How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea w:Simon & Schuster 2018 978-1-4711-6478-1 But now I think I’ve found a particularly disturbing and personally resonant reason for my Disneyphobia. About ten minutes into Frozen, there’s a crucial and decidedly dark plot twist, when Anna and Elsa’s parents, the king and queen of Arendelle, board a sailing ship. In a startlingly graphic ten-second sequence, the ship is caught in a violent storm, overwhelmed by towering waves and dragged under. Small wonder she doesn’t want ‘to sink to the bottom of the water’. Who can blame her? Curse you, Mickey Mouse. Antonyms en Disneyphilia Related terms en Disneyphobe en eponyms en Disney