Rap icon and television host Snoop Dogg said this week that Disney blindsided him and his grandson with sexual politics in a children’s film. Speaking on the It’s Giving podcast recently, Snoop relayed the story of taking his grandson to see the Pixar / Disney movie Lightyear back in 2022, which features a lesbian couple who have a child. The scene left him stuck explaining lesbian parenting to a preteen during what he thought would be a simple family outing.
“I took my grandson to see, uh, what was the movie with Buzz Lightyear,” Snoop recalled. “Kiki Palmer is in that movie. She plays, like, the daughter.” He soon realized that Palmer’s character was written with two mothers. That is when the questions started.
“They, like, she had a baby with a woman. Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,’” the rapper said.
Snoop admitted he had no answer and tried to steer the boy back to watching the film. “Oh shit. I didn’t come in for this shit, I just came to watch the goddamn movie. Hey man, watch the movie,” he said, recounting his frustration. “They just said she and she had a baby. They both women. How does she have a baby?”
He told host Sarah Fontenot that Disney had forced him into a conversation he was not prepared to have in a theater full of children. “So it’s like it’s f*** me. I’m scared to go to the movies. Like y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for,” he added. “These are kids that we have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have an answer.”
The rapper said he had simply hoped for a quiet night at the movies. “I was just there to go to sleep and watch the movie. And they woke me up. I’m, Huh? ‘They just said that she and she had a baby. How? They both women.’ Oh, man. Damn. Here, eat this popcorn.”
Lightyear included not only a female couple raising children but also featured a same-sex kiss. Defenders of the scene dismissed criticism as outdated. Star Chris Evans went so far as to call detractors “idiots” who are “going to die off like dinosaurs.”
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Audiences never embraced the film and Lightyear collapsed at the box office, grossing roughly one-third of the earlier Toy Story chapters. For parents like Snoop Dogg, the movie was less about Buzz Lightyear and more about navigating Hollywood’s culture war agenda with a child sitting in the next seat. Snoop is not a culture warrior. He is not a church pastor or a conservative activist. He is a mainstream entertainer who took his grandson to a movie and left annoyed.
That is the tell.
Of course all the usual suspects are attacking Snoop for speaking up about this.
If Disney is losing people like Snoop Dogg, then it’s totaly lost touch with the very audience it claims to serve. The lesson is obvious: parents want family films to be family films. Hollywood can keep smuggling in social agendas if they like, but even casual viewers are catching on, and they don’t like it. And as Snoop showed, they notice, they question, and in the end they walk away.
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