Like, really? It’s just like, come on guys, these are kids, and you know, you could always shift to Cinemax if you want that. You used to be able to put your kids on the Disney Channel and be like, alright, something innocuous will happen.” Like, why do you have-it used to be, look, I’m a dad. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Setting aside the fact that Cruz-who once blamed a congressional staffer for his Twitter account “liking” a short pornographic video-decided to let people know he turns to Cinemax when he’s looking to have a romantic night in with Little Ted, this kind of absurd fearmongering is straight out of the GOP playbook. Clearly, Disney is not going to depict “Mickey and Pluto going at it,” but it’s this kind of bullshit that results in right-wing conspiracy theorists protesting Disney for supposedly corrupting children. (You’ll have to leave that to Mike Pence, who famously took issue with Mulan normalizing women in the military because it could lead to…sex in the barracks?) It’s also the kind of thing that opens the door to blatant homophobia, and the idea, pushed lately by Republicans, that talking about the mere existence of LGBTQ+ individuals is synonymous with “grooming” and being “pro-pedophile.” (On the podcast, Cruz initially argued that conservatives shouldn’t use the “groomer” attack “lightly,” and it should be reserved for actual pedophiles, before seemingly getting distracted by the desire to misleadingly attack Disney.) Naturally, Cruz doesn't appear to have had a problem with the many hypersexualized (but straight) Disney characters of years past.
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