Talk:Prince Achmed/@comment-4098886-20120125231228/@comment-1672596-20141220174732

Yeah, and honestly, this guy is even worse than Gaston. At least Gaston didn't try to kill or otherwise injure children, and hey, at least Gaston actually tried to be nice to the ladies even if he was somewhat of a jerk overall. And if you take into account Muslim culture, you can actually understand quite well why Jasmine would be mortified at potentially being married to a guy like him (just look at what ISIS, al Qaida, and the like often does to the women. They throw acid in their faces if they even consider getting an education, and they suffer a lot of abuses that a lot of western feminists actually seem to at the very least ignore, if not outright support). To be honest, I'm not sure why they needed Belle to act like a jerk to Gaston during his proposal (especially throwing him into the mud and publicly humiliating him deliberately when a simple "no" would have sufficed, like in "Me" for example.)? At least Belle actually had some freedom to choose (at least Gaston wasn't an arranged marriage in the final version). Jasmine basically was forced by her father and the law to choose, so she really didn't have much options but to do something like that, even if it was somewhat bad.