Abigail Disney is an heiress with brass ovaries

[OxQQme]

who will profit from the GOP tax scam bill but isn’t into f-cking poor people over. Ms. Disney penned an op-ed for USA Today in which she rips the GOP a new one because she has “always been cognizant of income and wealth inequality.” In other words, she is not Donald Trump, Paul Ryan or Bob Corker. Or Mitch McConnell. She is Abigail Disney, dammit.

Link to tweet

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Quite a difference from (alleged) Nazi Walt

[angrychair]

2. Screw Disney

Disney’s impact on copyright laws should be criminal. That the majority of Disney’s most popular stories, from Cinderella to Snow White and everything in-between, are a simple retelling of older folk tales and such, many pulled directly from collections of the Grimm Brothers fairytales, that they got royalty free, even having already made millions from merchandise and movies, Disney continues to charge outrageous fees to use them for high school plays as well as requiring the scripts to only be done in certain ways, is criminal (say the word “Disney” to any HS drama teacher and they are likely to explode into a cussing fit).

The “Mouse” can kiss my ass.

[Duppers]

4. Did you listen to the clip?

This woman is not responsible for what her grandfather and her grand Uncle did.

[angrychair]

6. Disney is Disney

No different than the Kochs.

The Kochs fund hospitals and medical research and have huge charitable organizations but I am never going to praise them for it.

Unless she is using her influence to make fundamental changes at her namesake, from how they treat their park employees and actors to opening up royalty-free use of plays based on their movies (that they got though public domain royalty free), than it is no different than the nice things the Kochs do.

My empathy for the super-wealthy died the night of the republicans trillion dollar giveaway.

[LanternWaste]

12. Seems a rather relevant thing to research prior to going into an melodramatic rant.

Unless she is using her influence to make fundamental changes at her namesake..."

Seems a rather relevant thing to research prior to going into an melodramatic rant. But as it's inconvenient to do so and often interferes with our biases, I can certainly understand your lack of doing so.

My empathy for logical fallacies, laziness of research and knee-jerk reasons never died... as it never existed in the first place.

[Blue_true]

15. So, to you, every rich person is evil?

Some rich people are actually good human beings. Somewhere in the Koch family there is likely one or two virulently opposed to their uncles. If one of those Kochs came to work with you for good outcomes, you would turn them away simply because of the family that the person come from. How much more short-sighted can a person be? Honestly, if the child of Satan came to me to honestly work for good and against the actions of his or her father, I would welcome the help.

[woodsprite]

27. Actually, I think they rotate their plays out to allow middle and high schools to do them.

My son's drama league said Beauty and the Beast was just released, so they are doing that as their musical this year.

[angrychair]

32. We are too

But it wasn’t cheap

[NewJeffCT]

40. If nobody bought the rites to the Disney plays/musicals

the prices would drop. Nobody is forcing the high school to do Beauty and the Beast or Cinderella. If they want more kid friendly stuff, there is Into the Woods, Shrek the Musical or Seussical the Musical and probably more; if they want more mature stuff, there are plenty of options - older classics like West Side Story, 42nd Street, etc to more recent ones like Hairspray, Addams Family or In the Heights.

But, if a local high school puts on Seussical and gets 1,200 seats sold at $10 each for 3 shows in total, they make $12,000 in box office. If Beauty and the Beast sells 1,500 tickets at $10/each, they make $15,000 in box office (an extra 100 seats per show). Does the extra $3,000 justify the increased price?

[Javaman]

14. did she say anything about donating the money she will making off the tax deal? nt

[Luz]

18. No, not did she mention giving up her money to live

like us peasants. Poor little rich girl. Screw that.

[Duppers]

26. You criticize Tom Steyer too? Or Soros?

🐦

[Duppers]

21. She might...

More about her...

"Last year, when Meryl Streep publicly accused Walt of being a "bigot," his grandniece took to her Facebook page to voice how she "loved" the actress' remarks. "Anti-Semite? Check." Disney wrote. "Misogynist? OF COURSE!! Racist? C'mon…

The fear of being judged for her name is also what kept Disney away from filmmaking for so long. After earning three degrees — a bachelor's from Yale University, master's from Stanford University and a doctorate from Columbia — she worked largely as a philanthropist, launching nonprofits to fight poverty and encourage global peace building.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-abigail-disney-20151030-story.html

"I’ve given away about a third of my net worth, although it has come back to me as quickly as I’ve given it away. I’ve started making million dollar grants payable over four to five years.

But bolder giving isn’t just about grant size; it’s about being out in the world and working with other people. I’m a far richer person because of it."

- Abigale Disney




F your purity test. I appreciate her efforts.

[Luz]

38. I didn't know that. Thanks for educating me.

[lunamagica]

5. They don't charge fees for using the tales. They charge fees for using Disney's version of the tales

(such as costumes). Big difference.

[angrychair]

8. Yes and no

It’s the difference between a Beauty and the Beast people recognize and one that looks familiar.

Even those productions can be cost prohibitive to purchase the rights to do it. Especially if you are not a very big school. I know that Drana departments are always way overfunded so they always have thousands of extra dollars to spend on a single production.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

10. If your stage production of Beauty & The Beast has characters named

Belle, Gaston, or Lefou, or anthropomorphic furniture/household items then you are gonna have copyright problems, because Disney owns those characters. They are NOT in the original fairytale.

If you want to do a stage production of Beauty and the Beast and base it on the actual French fairy tale, then you'll have no problems whatsoever.

[Scarsdale]

11. Well,

several years ago a little tavern in the town of Beloit, Wis. population 36,000 was sued by Disney. They had to change the name from Mickey Mouse to just Mouse. It had been Mickey Mouse for years before that. Everyone was shocked.

[lunamagica]

20. But the name Mickey Mouse is copyrighted by Disney. Or did thery come by the name on their own

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before Disney's Mickey Mouse?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

29. As is their right.

I would’ve sued them, too.

It’s easy to oppose intellectual property rights when you don’t own any intellectual property.

[lunamagica]

23. They can do the play without any resemblence to Disney's version. It's should be "Beauty and the

Beast", not "Disney's Beauty and the Beast"

[pnwmom]

33. They can write their own original script based on the ancient fairy tale.

They can't just use the copyrighted Disney version for free.

Copyright laws protect all writers, not just Disney.

[pnwmom]

16. Copyright laws don't apply to ancient fairy tales. YOU could also write your own stories,

for free, recycling any of the Grimm's fairy tales because they're hundreds of years old. All works published since 1922 are in the public domain. Do you read German? That will help.

But you can't simply take Disney's work (a highly sanitized and Americanized version of the oral stories) and use that for free -- except for any stories that are past the copyright date.

[Duppers]

3. She was great!

This could be run as an ad against the GOP.


Thx for posting QXQQ.

[Scarsdale]

13. Good for her.

Where are the rest of them (apart from the millionaires who will benefit in the government) to join her?

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. Exactly, they should ALL be speaking out against this tax scam. Should be demanding that shithead

NOT sign this atrocious bill. I won't hold my breath.

[smirkymonkey]

7. K&R

[whathehell]

9. Good on her!

[pnwmom]

17. I hope she gets into Florida politics. n/t

[gibraltar72]

19. My Gawd

even our allies must somehow pass a purity test!

[Duppers]

22. Incredible, uh!

Thanks.

[DoctorJoJo]

24. Interesting, Considering That Disney ...

... is as Right-Wing as they come. Walt himself was a noted fascist and Hitler sympathizer.

[Blue_Adept]

25. Right wing parents only beget right wing children?

[woodsprite]

28. You'll have to tell that to my husband. He has right wing evangelical parents

and he is a far cry from that.

[pnwmom]

34. And grand-nieces.

[Duppers]

30. My parents were extreme RW idiots.

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Thank gawd it's not genetic.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

31. Disney made anti Nazi cartoons...

Der Fuher’s Face and Education For Death come to mind.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. Disney & Koch's used Ernst & Young to dodge US taxes by shipping profits to Luxembourg.

.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-reveals-luxembourg-tax-deals-disney-koch-brothers-empire/

They fired almost of their IT people and replaced them with H1-B visa holders.

.

[oasis]

36. She's a great advocate for "the common good".

[Achilleaze]

37. k and r

[MadDAsHell]

43. Yes but at some point in the past she or a family member probably did something we dont like.

So she probably needs to get under the bus with the rest of them.

[niyad]

44. So glad she is speaking out.

[Nitram]

45. Is the term "brass ovaries" supposed to be a complement?

I understand what you're trying to do, but it just doesn't sound right to me. Trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. Modify a macho term to pay a woman a compliment? Maybe I'm tone deaf. Any women out there that can tell me of I'm off base in thinking so?