DISNEY MAY BE PROMOTING ILLITERACY!
Yes you heard right.
I know, I can't believe it either.
Let me explain:
Beauty and the Beast is a film that I hold close to my heart - it is a film that says 'it doesn't matter what you look like as long as the person you like has a mansion and a huge library.' Seriously - Belle is the only one of the disney princesses that doesn't fondle over the first guy she sees - instead, having a little 'something something' for bestiality... Hey, to each to their own, right? I mean, if Daniel Radcliffe can do Equus, why can't Belle be with the Beast?
Anyway, I love this movie - so imagine my surprise when I discover that Disney mocks the protagonist for reading?
Let me explain:
At the start of the movie, you'll remember a song called 'Belle's song'.
Basically, its all about Belle complaining about living in a provincial town... So to escape from it all, she reads books. The first one we notice her reading is 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (to which i expressed a slight twitch in my left eye, but nonetheless).
So basically, Belle likes to read.
And in this song: EVERYONE bags her for it!
I know what your thinking: you're all thinking to yourselves "I want proof dammit!"
FINE! I'LL GIVE YOU PROOF!
Ladies and gentleman, exhibit A!
THE LYRICS TO THE SONG SHE SINGS!
Townspeople: "Look there she goes that girl is so peculiar, I wonder if she's feeling well."
So you think to yourself - why? Why is Belle so peculiar?Oh, don't worry, they explain all that within the next lyrics:"With a dreamy far-off look, and her nose stuck in a book - What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle"
...You mean, she's weird because she reads?
Oh, and don't forget, she has a 'dreamy far-off' look too!
*le gasp*
HOW DARE SHE!
What is this saying to little kids who have hopes in becoming an author? Or merely, children who just like to read?
OR JUST LIKE TO DAYDREAM!
THAT WE WILL BE WEIRD?
I'm sure Shakespeare, Dickens and Dahl have something to say about this!
...Or well, before they all died anyway...
Exhibit B
If lyrics weren't enough, lets see the faces of these criminals! These accusers of the written word!
Picture one: okay, so the two elderly woman in the background may be making fun of Belle's ape impression... OR THE BOOK IN HER BASKET! :O
Picture three: The most compelling and shocking evidence of them all: EVEN when Belle tutors little baby sheep in how to read, she attracts the 'evil eye' from a disheveled woman in the back! Let me remind you, this is all because she is READING! Or because she likes to daydream! 
Picture four: THEY AREN'T EVEN SUBTLE WHEN TEASING HER! I mean, the LEAST they could do was give her silent, disproving faces or quiet grunts of disapproval here and there... but no! Belle has to be followed like Angelina Jolie taking the rubbish out!
I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!
This is NOT right!
I've got this theory that this is all part of Disney's dream to turn children off books and onto TV instead - as a result, transforming them into a horde of mindless zombies to which the company will use to take over the world.
Not a likely thought, but a 'chin-stroker' theory at that...
My final thought (yes, Jerry Springer isn't the only one who has these):
As a student partaking in a professional and creative writing course, I say 'FOR SHAME DISNEY!'
'FOR SHAME!'
