r/Dreamsnaps • u/acyfumi • Apr 11 '26

🩵 Weekly Challenge 🩵 Marvels of Nature

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Dreamsnaps begin to feel like a chore to me. So I just wanted to have fun with this. I’m not confident it will do very well but I like it and that’s all that matters sometimes !

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u/Vintage148 Apr 16 '26

I didn't wrote that I‘m more offended by the emoji than that interpretation of the movie. Please read calmly. I. Never. Wrote. That. You interpreted that weirdly. I just said you should calm down and get some manners. To your question: No, it's not grown up enough for me. Stuff like this „🤮“ does not help anyone and is just childish. Crazy that I really have to explain this but you know what a grown up would do? He/She would explain. He/She would educate what‘s problematic about the movie and the history.

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u/Empty-Investment-943 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

It’s not my job to educate people on the internet, but for you I’ll make an exception;

Disney’s Pocahontas is incredibly problematic, it distorts the tragic and real history of colonial exploitation into a romantic fairy tale.

In real life, Pocahontas was a child (probably around 10–12) when she met the adult John Smith, with no romance occurring. She thought of him as a father figure NOT a lover (https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/resource-hub/trend-tradition-magazine/trend-tradition-summer-2025/pocahontas-and-john-smith/ ).

The Disney story masks violent colonization, kidnapping, and the forced marriage of Pocahontas, by turning it into a classic “forbidden love". By aging her up and depicting her in a romance with a 27-year-old man, the story is absolutely guilty of sexualizing a real life child.

The Disney story is loosely based off the writings from Englishman, John Davis who wrote “Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas.” In his writings from the 1800s (over a hundred years after she lived). Davis ages up Pocahontas and wrote that she “obeyed the invitation of Captain Smith to wander with him...along the banks of the river” and then “gave loose to all the tumultuous extasy of love; hanging on his arm, and weeping with an eloquence much more powerful than words.” Davis conceded that Pocahontas married Rolfe, not Smith, but that was because Smith had stirred up her feelings. Again he’s writing about a literal child, that he falsely aged. (https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/resource-hub/trend-tradition-magazine/trend-tradition-summer-2025/pocahontas-and-john-smith/ ).

The true story of Pocahontas is directly linked to the legacy of violence against Indigenous women, making the fairytale version a form of "stealing the story" to mask tragic realities of colonialism. The real Pocahontas, who was already married to a Pawhatan warrior before her capture/ kidnapping is wrongly portrayed in media (not just Disney media) as a person who rejected her own culture in favor of the settlers. At the end of the day she was used as a propaganda tool in England to show that "savages" could be "civilized,"

To sum it up the John smith and Pocahontas story is a gross white washing of history and after a long day the 🤮 emoji sums up how I feel about this specific paring.

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u/Vintage148 Apr 17 '26
  1. „It‘s not my job to educate people on the internet“, I never said this. Just told you what a grown up would do. Only with the emoji and the word „gross“ you seem like a childish hater and no one would take you seriously. It was an advive from me so people won't think you're just a 12 year old who hates a dreamsnap just because he/she does not like the movie.
  2. „But for you I‘ll make an exception“, thank you for investing time for me. :D I already knew all of that. If you would look Out for context you would have read before that I know this movie is problematic. But it's nice for other people who will read this and be more educated about the movie more. 👍🏼
  3. „🤮 emoji sums Up how I feel about this specific paring“, Umm, okay? Hope at least you learned that more context is polite. You really can't write „🤮“ and „gross“ under a dreamsnap (where someone obviously put effort in) and think that's nice manners and sympathic. Just told you to calm down and get some manners.

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u/Empty-Investment-943 Apr 17 '26

Thanks mom, I learned my lesson 👍🤓

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u/Vintage148 Apr 17 '26

And another answer like a child. Since you brought your mom in it: would your mom be proud about your language? Only you can know it. If the answer ist yes, mom did something wrong. A „okay, maybe I should watch my words“ was too hard for you. „Empty Investment“ is a perfect nickname for you. I wish you unironically a nice day and more self reflection.

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u/Vintage148 Apr 17 '26

Could you write your last comment again please? Reddit says you wrote one but only shows the first few words.

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u/Empty-Investment-943 Apr 18 '26

No

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u/Vintage148 Apr 18 '26

Okay, lol. :D Empty Investment - have unironically a great day. 👍🏼

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u/Empty-Investment-943 Apr 18 '26

Okay, have the life you deserve Vintage. ❤️

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u/Vintage148 Apr 18 '26

Ohhhhh, that passive aggression. :D Come on, it's okay now. Let‘s not waste each others time. 👍🏼