It wasn't until recently that I realized that the Disney corporation, as a whole, have been aiming a majority of it's entertainment towards girls. Granted Sport Goofy and some of the Donald Duck shit have been oriented towards boy, most of everything else is based on Princess' and shit.
Even though it's intent, in the beginning, was educational programming for boy and girls ranging in age from preschool to early teens, programming eventually metamorphosing into television shows that appealed mainly to girls between the ages of 7 and 14 years of age. Shows like The Mickey Mouse Club, Kids Incorporated and High School Musical are all examples of television aimed at girls, not to mention almost every movie released was about a princess of one sort or another. Whether it's Snow White, Sleeping Beauty or Jasmine from Aladdin and Ariel from the Little Mermaid, practically everything is aimed at girls. Somewhere along the way, in recent years, executives at Disney must have wised up to the missing male demographic and the launch of a new Disney network was launched, called "Disney XD".
In recent years, Disney's been buying up all sorts of new content, rather than creating anything of their own. It began with the acquisition of Jim Henson's Muppets and Pixar to the most recent purchase of Marvel Entertainment and George Lucas' Star Wars, each selling for around $4 billion. Now original content featuring the characters made famous by those studios.
Until it was mentioned in a podcast that I was listening to recently, I'd never really thought about it, before. Disney really had been catering to the fairer sex. Imagine all the lost revenue the corporation had missed out on prior to XD. Couldn't have been that much lost revenue when you consider their shelling out over eight BILLION dollars for Star Wars and Marvel alone, not to mention all the other purchases in recent history.
Soon, my mind began to wander, as it sometimes does, curious about why Disney would name their new network XD? Then it suddenly donned on me.
Until it was mentioned in a podcast that I was listening to recently, I'd never really thought about it, before. Disney really had been catering to the fairer sex. Imagine all the lost revenue the corporation had missed out on prior to XD. Couldn't have been that much lost revenue when you consider their shelling out over eight BILLION dollars for Star Wars and Marvel alone, not to mention all the other purchases in recent history.
Soon, my mind began to wander, as it sometimes does, curious about why Disney would name their new network XD? Then it suddenly donned on me.
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