While I don't particularly enjoy Disney's actions as a corporation, Disney cassette tapes, activity books, and read-a-longs were a huge part of how I learned to read. Even though some of Giroux's arguments were valid, at points I felt like he was using weak arguments just to prove his point. For example when he describes Disney as "antidemocratic." Obviously many Disney movies would involve a lot of hierarchical societies because many of the stories are set in the past. Children enjoy reading Grimm's fairy tales but rarely do we hear complaints about gender roles and antidemocratic ideas in their writing. I think Giroux gives kids too much credit for being able to detect racist or sexist undertones and too little for being able to differentiate between reality and cartoons.