Baymax Is A Kid’s Show, So Of Course Its Representation Isn’t Subtle

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The conservatives are mad about cartoons again. As someone who covers the medium here at TheGamer, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen needless outrage thrown at shows or films that seek to both further representation and make young viewers aware of important issues.

Much like Turning Red before it, Baymax features a scene where our healthcare companion finds himself shopping for tampons and is taught about periods from a selection of diverse characters of different body types, genders, and ethnicities. It’s the woke agenda out in full force, so of course certain pockets of the internet are angry about media daring to teach lessons they’re too afraid to teach themselves. I’m not convinced they’re actually pissed, instead kicking up a stink to punch down on minorities with this weird faux outrage.

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But it worked, with a right-wing dispshit sharing an exclusive clip on social media (which wasn’t really exclusive because it went out to several other outlets at the same time) that showed the period scene in full, believing it to be yet another nail in Disney’s woke coffin as it continued to spread woke politics and sexual indoctrination to children like it’s going to turn them into twisted, rainbow-spewing demon spawn. None of that will happen, life will continue as normal, and corporations will keep furthering representation even if their business dealings and political donations make their rainbow capitalism feel like an overall pittance.

The scene itself is a small part of the show, and fairly innocent if a little clumsy in how it handles certain representation. Baymax asks a random lady (voiced by The Owl House’s Sarah Nicole-Robles) for some advice on feminine