Turns out that there is something you can go on for two plus hours and in one word it is: Disney. So the guest speaker in my freshman seminar was this awesome guy, who totally changed the way I will now and forever look at Disney. Who knew that Disney owned so many things, like ESPN or Lifetime and so on. If you can think of it Disney probably owns it. Did you know that the opening to Aladdin used to have different words in the first song. Apparently people were so offended that they complained and it wasn't until one relatively famous guy along with a newspaper spoke out about it that Disney finally decided to do something about it. Before then Disney's go-to saying was "It's just a cartoon" and our guest speaker made the point that when it comes to culture nothing is ever "just" anything. When you think about Disney, you think about your childhood, innocence, magic, princesses, a place where dreams come true. You never think of it as some place where they're trying to sell you something or get across a very subtle message, but it is. Like in all the princess movies  they're showing you that you have to look a certain way to get a "prince", that you can change someone with enough love, or that the damsel in distress always gets rescued in the end and everyone lives happily ever after, but that rarely happens in real life. Which is probably why we all love the stories with happy endings, with the guy getting the girl in the end, or about saving the world, because reality sucks, a lot of the time. Granted I'm still going to love the princesses and happily ever after's but I'm just going to think about them differently.