Yahoo News This Morning viewers irritated by 'is Bambi too traumatic' debate
Another day, another debate on This Morning that riles people up.
Today's (December 19) show followed up on the story that a deer hunter had been forced by a judge to watch Bambi multiple times in prison in order to teach him a lesson, we assume.
Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford chaired a debate between two guests on whether the Disney film was 'too traumatic' for children, with one saying she refuses to let her children watch it while the other says that it may be sad but it teaches kids a good message.
Whereas these debates usually split viewers in some way, people watching at home were practically all for letting their kids watch the film:
When will people stop having an issue with everything, Bambi hasn’t affecting people before why would it now. The arguments around it are astounding, the world has officially gone barmy #thismorning #Bambi
- Danielle Halifax (@barclays90) December 19, 2018
#thismorning So we should ban Bambi but encourage children to sleep with dirty, germ ridden teddy bears...I give up!
- Pete Lashmar (@Lashed34) December 19, 2018
#ThisMorning @thismorning whats the world coming to never did me any harm. #Disney #bambi
- danielle (@danninaylor) December 19, 2018
'We have so much trauma in our modern society'. Trauma is parents starving their children, not changing their nappies, and neglecting them so their brains don't form properly. Not watching bloody Bambi. How utterly ridiculous. Get a grip. #thismorning
- Eugene Tackleberry (@BRFC_Bigchris) December 19, 2018
bambi makes me like animals, it doesn’t traumatise me or make me think fathers are useless and don’t stick around #thismorning
- charlotte 🌵 (@buzzforchar) December 19, 2018
#ThisMorning this stupid woman needs to be censored for making some kind of living out of creating problems that simply do not exist. #Bambi is the least of a child’s worries. Starve her of air time, better still air.
- Garry Hunter (@TojoHunter) December 19, 2018
Yes I think families should watch Bambi @ Xmas. I can assure u that I’m more traumatised as an adult than I was watching it as a kid. We like to shelter kids from the real world too much these days. Bambi teaches a valuable lesson about life #ThisMorning
- Susan J (@PinkGazelle2) December 19, 2018
I watched Bambi as a child and I weren't traumatised.
It's a good window for them to ask questions, and children will to learn that sometimes, people lose the ones they love, whether human or animal.
This woman is an idiot and doesn't have a clue!#ThisMorning @thismorning- Katie✌💋 (@pjkatiee) December 19, 2018
#ThisMorning my 6 year old has asked to watch bambi on numberous occasions, he loves it and it has had no effect on him.. what does that tell you.. bore off with your over analysis
- Cherie Renton (@CherieRenton1) December 19, 2018
Even Geordie Shore's Nathan Henry chipped in:
What has the world come too seriously, wanting to censor bambi? The film is a Disney classic, the fact this conversation is being had in #ThisMorning has shocked me, are we seriously going to vet every childhood film encase it effects future children ?
- Nathan Henry (@NathanHGShore) December 19, 2018
The anti-Bambi guest stated in one of her arguments that no Disney films had parents that were still alive, which fans were to point out was wrong, naming films The Princess and the Frog, Moana, Lilo and Stitch and Brave, to name a few.
There’s plenty of Disney movies where the mum is still present thank you very much, do your research. Also, no one is sitting their child in front of the tv to watch bambi, to teach them about death. It’s a children’s film. Get over it. #ThisMorning
- 𝒿𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶 (@yepp_itsjess) December 19, 2018
#ThisMorning yo there are a couple of wonderful Disney movies with maternal figures, like Kala in Tarzan, Nani in Lilo and Stitch, Perdita in 101 Dalmatians, Duchess in The Aristocats, Mrs Potts in Beauty and the Beast, Queen Elinor in Brave, Chicha in The Emperor’s New Groove...
- *Future Dr.* Tabby Price (@tabbymprice) December 19, 2018
@thismorning Not 1 Disney has a mother that woman said. In 101 Dalmations there are mother and father dogs, Mary Poppins has Mr and Mrs Banks, Brave is about a mother/daughter relationship . #ThisMorning
- mat9330 (@mat9330) December 19, 2018
#thismorning Brave, Treasure Planet, Princess and Frog, Moana, Toy Story, Tarzan, Lion King - all with strong mums who don't die.
- Rose (@KickingRoses) December 19, 2018
‘There’s no strong mums in Disney films’ okay but the film brave is about the strong bond between mother and daughter lmao #ThisMorning
- amz (@AmyLStockwell) December 19, 2018
Disney films were recently at the centre of another fiery debate when Kiera Knightley revealed that she had banned her children from watching certain Disney films because the messages surrounding their female characters were problematic.
If Bambi is meant to be traumatic, then maybe it's best to avoid the new version of Watership Down that is airing over Christmas.
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