Fans Petition Against Disney Depicting Stepmoms as Evil
It’s hard to imagine older Disney classics without evil stepmothers, but some fans are trying to change things. Fans Petition Against Disney Depicting Stepmoms as Evil . A new petition…
English actress Margaret Lockwood (1916 – 1990) makes her last movie appearance as the Wicked Stepmother in ‘The Slipper and the Rose’, a retelling of the Cinderella story being filmed on location at Southwark Cathedral, 30th July 1975. With her are Rosalind Ayres (centre) and Sherrie Hewson (right) as the Two Ugly Sisters. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
It's hard to imagine older Disney classics without evil stepmothers, but some fans are trying to change things. Fans Petition Against Disney Depicting Stepmoms as Evil . A new petition on Change.org is calling for an end to the wicked stepmother trope.
The petition states, "Stepmothers are characterized in movies and books as willfully ignoring their stepchildren in the best case or denigrating and abusing them in the worst case." The petition was written by an actual stepmother looking for proper representation to shine a positive light on blended families.
Fans Petition Against Disney Depicting Stepmoms as Evil
