{"id":1928,"date":"2005-11-05T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/05\/why-does-the-disney-store-hate-america\/"},"modified":"2005-11-05T16:03:37","modified_gmt":"2005-11-05T23:03:37","slug":"why-does-the-disney-store-hate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The Disney Store Hate America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mythago reports<\/a> that some local Christians leave their porch light on to attrack trick-or-treaters – but only give away pamphlets imploring people to come to Christ (and come join their church).<\/p>\nWhat teases! Plus, they’re being counter-productive: I’m sure they’re just instilling a lifelong prejudice against Christians in some of their victims.<\/p>\n

It does poke a needle in a pet theory of mine, however. We took Syndey trick-or-treating in the mall this year (I’ll post pictures of Sydney in her costume in a couple of weeks, when I’m back home from Florida). The mall encourages this practice, and most of the mall stores have an employee in a costume and holding a bag of candy hanging out by the entraces, ready to fill up kid’s bags. Some of the places give away stickers instead of candy, which is a little on the lame side, but since Sydney actually loves stickers I’ll give those stores a pass.<\/p>\n

What’s unforgivable is the Disney Store, which didn’t give away candy, and didn’t give away stickers. Instead, they gave away little printed ads telling us that Disney’s new movie, Chicken Little<\/em>, will open soon.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, children wait on line for this, thinking that they’re going to get candy. Disney stole precious time from these 2-6 year olds that could have been spent waiting on line for some store that doesn’t Hate America and therefore gave out candy!<\/p>\n

Plus, they dressed some poor 12-year-old in a princess costume to hand out the ads – I presume because they knew that an adult employee would have had to listen to complaints from angry parents, whereas no one was willing to yell at a 12 year old girl. So not only are the people who run the Disney Store lame<\/em>, they’re cowards<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, at the time I argued that Disney could only get away with being so lame because they were in a mall, which screws up the entire trick-or-treat economy by eliminating the essential threat of egging. It’s classic moral hazard: If the infrastructure guarantees no punishment for it, why shouldn’t people use trick-or-treating as a ruse for advertising? But Mythago’s Christians apparently aren’t worried about being egged, either, so maybe I’m wrong. (Or maybe the Christians want to be egged, so they can feel martyred.)<\/p>\n

In Mythago’s comments, by the way, is one of the best distinctions I’ve read all week: ” I would pee on these people in a non-sexual way.” Thank goodness it’s in a non-sexual way!<\/pracut>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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