Newly installed Disney CEO Bob Chapek had the first harrowing media moment of his new position, as he pushed back against a homophobe during a shareholder meeting. Said homophobe happened to be noted hysteric Caroline Farrow.
During the meeting, Farrow confronted Chapek, claiming “the way you currently promote LGBT ideology in many of your products for children” has damaged the Disney brand. She continued: “At a time when your stock is down by 20%, is it perhaps time to reconsider what you can do to make Disney more family-friendly… and also, what would you say to those 700,000 people who signed our petition saying, please let’s not have the gay prides in the Disneyland parks?”
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An unphased Chapek shot down all of Farrow’s claims. “At Disney,” Chapek said, “we strongly believe we should reflect in our creative content the diversity that we find in our fanbase and our audience. I believe that will continue with an increased commitment as we move forward. We want to represent our audience. We believe we want to tell stories that our audience wants to hear that reflects their lives.”
He went on to point out that Disney stock had remained solid or increased in value for years until the current panic over the COVID-19 caused devaluation in stocks across the board. His response brought thunderous applause to the meeting.
Disney has waded into LGBTQ representation in recent films like Onward and The Rise of Skywalker.
Caroline Farrow has a long history of attacks on queer people, including opposition to marriage equality, attacks on transgender people and opposing same-sex parenting. Earlier this year, she attacked Disney for hosting a Pride Parade at Disneyland Paris, and was denied entry to the United States when she tried to deliver a petition Disney favoring cessation of all official and unofficial LGBTQ events.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I hope that Botox laden truly disturbing looking crunt miserable dust filled barren vagina suffers the most epic raging cottage cheese filled yeast infection every day til she burns her vile mortal coil and goes directly to the darkest corner of Hell to burn in agony for all eternity…..
Smith David
Ok! Umm..well…I..I you know…umm..hmmmm…uuuuhhh..
jaack
The Eight level of Hell (and nastiest level) is waiting for her. There is a star-studded position where demons there will torture her soul and will not leave her in the darkest place in hell. Oh, the Eight level King Demon will have a theme park already for her blackened hate-filled soul. Denial of US entry, she isn’t being discriminated against for being a homophobe but for being British to be specific
jayceecook
I know I’ll get attacked for saying this but… Maury, that’s a man!
Also, in what universe is Disney in some kind of financial pit of doom?
Mack
I think every travel related business is having a problem right now and has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community. I’m currently scheduled to go to the Disney Resort Aulani on April 1st and to Disneyland the third week in May. At this point I have no intentions of cancelling my trips and I’m a 72 year old man. I’ll take precautions but I’m going unless my travel mates bail out (which I doubt).
As usual some right wing bigot wants to spread their bigotry.
jayceecook
@Mack Of course just about everybody is being affected by this new pandemic is some way. But I’m talking about Disney as a whole company. The one that’s been going around spending billions of dollars to snatch up as much intellectual property as possible and/or buy out/takeover companies. You can’t do that if, as this person suggests, you’re company is in financial ruins because of the gays.
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No you are 1000% correct. It has very masculine features. Maybe that is the root of it’s attacks on Gays. Any Drag Queen can look 100x more feminine than it does. It has an Ann Cruntor thingy going on…. 🙂
jayceecook
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The AC comparison is a good one. Though I was thinking more aging PNP twink trying to get a position with GOOP so they grabbed the cheapest wig that screamed Gwyneth.
rand503
I like to ask this bitch how gays are not “family friendly?”
Chrisk
Everything is projection with them. Whatever they’re pointing the fingers at you can bet they’re doing it a hundred times worse.
radiooutmike
Oh this a known, and cataloged Karen?
I just thought it was just a regular Disney fan Karen.
Raymundo
I was a queer 3 year old. Are they claiming I wasn’t family friendly at 3?
Rodgass
If she and all of her homophobe friends put as much effort into helping those who are truly in need of help, the world would be a better place. Such misdirected energy.
RickHeathen
These wackos apparently think we sprung from Satan’s ass or something, and didn’t come from a family or have families of our own. I’m sick of the attempts at exclusion.
Cam
Disney isn’t stupid. They know bigory is not a great business strategy.
However the way non-LGBT media is reporting this shows just how invested major media is in not offending bigots.
NBC called Farrow an “Anti-LGBT activist”. Just curious, would they call a KKK member an “Anti-African American Activist”?
Media needs to call a bigot a bigot, and homophobia homophobia.
James
CAROLINE FARROW IS A MENTALLY ILL CHILD ABUSING PIECE OF SH*T.
itzallan
Well, bless her little ol’ bigotted heart. Her behavior screams of “my comfortable heterosexual-dominated world is fading away and it scares the poop out of me.” The expression on her face in that photo pretty much says it all. Ah, so sad, the poor thing.
jaack
Caroline is lashing out because she is jealous of so many others. I am glad the SCOTUS ruling made her arguments specious for same-sex marriage. Please keep your hate speech in the UK with the Brexit lunatics, we have Trump that bad enough without a female version of him in you.