Neatorama needs to have a way to flag a post as BS. I realize it's not a news site, but come one, they should have better standards than to allow posts like this, even if some newspapers don't. Read the article at the original link people. The so-called "virginity test" isn't actually what freed them. The acupuncturist in question just spent so much time yelling that they were innocent that the authorities reopened the case and found flaws in the original investigation. Maybe they were guilty, maybe they weren't, but painting the picture that they were released because of something as ridiculous as a "male viginity test" is just plain irresponsible.

Apparently, whoever posted this didn't actually read the whole article, or maybe just didn't think the truth was very interesting, so he/she just took out the most ridiculous bits and left us to draw incorrect conclusions from it.

Okay, my knee-jerk reaction was to find this amusing, but the reality is that this is pretty unfair to Disney.

The first, and maybe most obvious, issue I have is with the fact that whoever did this cherry picked the characters that make their argument. Where's Mulan or Pocahontas? Oh, those characters don't really fit the message so we'll just ignore them.

Second, characters like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella are taken way out of context. At least the dates are acknowledged, but is it really fair at all to hold Disney movies from 1937 up to a modern feminist standard?

Finally, the characterization on Belle is pretty brief, and I suspect that's because the complaint doesn't really fit. Belle was very independent and her sexuality had nothing to do with saving the Beast.

In short, the whole thing is kind of ridiculous.