"Yo ho, yo ho, a PC ride for me." Several years after altering a scene in the Pirates Of The Caribbean attraction so pirates are no longer chasing women but rather the women are chasing the pirates for stealing food, Disney has once again caved to the MeToo protesters and the "politically correct" crowd.
Disneyland's Pirates Of The Caribbean bride auction redo: people either hate it or love it
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, Jun 14 2018
"Take a wench for a bride," read the banner above the auction block. Front and center was a buxom redhead, clearly the Mercado’s prime merchandise. Dressed in crimson and bound with rope to several more female abductees, she winked at prospective buyers as other prisoners cried into dainty hankies over their fate.
"Shift yer cargo, dearie. Show 'em yer larboard side!” the grizzled auctioneer commanded an abductee as the animatronic vixen lifted her skirt to show some leg, just as she had hundreds of times a day, thousands of times a year, since Pirates Of The Caribbean’s grand opening at Disneyland in 1967.
But last week came a change in the script. After closing April 23 for renovations, the iconic ride reopened June 8. Gone is the bride auction and with it, the idea of female subjugation as a punchline. The redhead has been recast as the wily wisecracking Redd, the Disney attraction’s first female pirate. With a bottle of rum in one hand and two pistols tucked in her skirt belt, now she's the one heckling the auctioneer as he solicits bids on "hearty hens, every one an egg layer."
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