Talk:John Lasseter/@comment-32248383-20181020133645

I wish everyone would just quit talking negatively about John Lasseter. Just because he made some forms of missteps, whether it was intentional or not (I certainly don't believe it was intentional), doesn't necessarily make him a bad person and he apologized for causing any discomfort or abuse. I took everything that he said in the memo as his word and I think he truly meant it. And don't get me started with the "being sorry isn't saying enough" nonsense, because whoever acknowledges in making some mistakes in his or her life deserves redemption and I felt like the current cultural workplace environment coming from both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios became too overly sensitive and lacked the faith and trust without giving it second thought. They could have just given him new rules to "don't do this when you are around women", "if you want to greet somebody, just shake their hand rather than hug them", "keep your hands to yourself whenever they are not needed", and "don't drink heavily on anything that has given you that drunken behavior at both parties and staff meetings", the latter of which I think the majority of the problems grew out of. But, considering his official departure from the Walt Disney Company, I think he has probably done enough to help influence two of the biggest animation studios going forward. So, why don't we all just make amends, take back every negative thing that people had said about Lasseter over the last year and let's just let bygones be bygones and let's just move on from all this mess, okay? Because without John Lasseter, there probably would not have been a Pixar and there would never have been a Toy Story and the Disney Animation studio would probably would never have that big turn around in the mid-2000s. So, that's my thoughts on the current matter.