Response To Children's Culture andd Disney's Animated Films

I have read something like this before from my first year at UVA, but this reading did not interest me like it did before at all. I understood what Giroux's point was about how Disney does their films and makes it good for the kids, but the kids don't look at the movie to figure out the bad messages in it. Do you think kids would've thought or figured out that there were stereotypes in, The Lion King? NO!! I know when I watched Disney movies as a kid, I didn't see the stereotypes, racism, etc in every movie. I think children do understand which characters in each movie are good or bad, but that is pretty straight forward. Now that I'm a adult, I can see the things that Giroux is pointing out, but I as far as the kids shake, they are still going to watch Disney movies the same no matter how bad the stereotypes are, because the only thing they get out of a movie is a happy ending.