#but then you can't really have two toddlers and a baby onstage so I don't know what the answer is

[partywithponies]

Early Disney did SUCH a disservice to all the female characters in all its book adaptations apart from maybe Alice.

Like, Disney's 101 Dalmatians is by far the worst offender, I could write an entire essay on the absolute misogyny of the way Disney handled every single important female character in that book to the point of making some of them male in the film when their entire character arc in the book is about them wanting to recognised as having both masculine and feminine sides and not wanting either to be erased, and of course Disney's Peter Pan made Peter himself sexist for no reason whatsoever when he says nothing of the sort in the book and would never talk to Wendy that way (thus doing Wendy a disservice because book Wendy would never simp for someone who talks about girls like that), but one thing I've never seen anyone talk about is how much of a disservice Disney's Mary Poppins did to Jane Banks.