Talk:Belle's Sisters/@comment-1672596-20150608173707/@comment-1765692-20150620070725

Oh, Eric. You're just too predictable. I'll spare you the details on how Belle being simply good rather than absolutely pure doesn't diminish the intended message, since I know you'll have some hair-brained "rebuttal" for that, too. Do you know why you rarely lose an argument? It isn't because of your sound reasoning, on the contrary, your reasoning is incredibly flawed. All you do is nitpick. No, the real reason you rarely lose is because nothing gets through that thick skin of yours.

But since I bet you want some sort of rebuttal, I'll humor you. Your logic is as follows: Belle did the only thing she could to defend herself when Gaston had her backed against a door, therefore she's a bad person. Gaston and Lumiere are both womanizers, therefore the film is hypocritical (never mind how it was Gaston's brutishness, not his womanizing, that made him a bad person). The Bimbettes are not foils, therefore they should be judged as poor foils (never mind how they are clearly intended to be gag characters, and not foils). You mention Belle "being a jerk" to the Beast, I assume you're referring to the scene where she's tending to his wound. In that scene, she was standing up to the Beast when he was being a jerk. I'm sorry, did you want Belle to be like Cinderella, who took other peoples' abuse like a good little slave girl? Did whatever she was told without question? Wouldn't want to find out what her captor is hiding in a forbidden room? As for the foil, the Beast was Belle's foil, and that's all that was needed.

Not that you'll listen, of course. You're just going to go back to regurgitating the same claims, over and over again, without listening to any dissenting opinion. You never could take criticism, could you? If you could, you'd probably still be on YouTube, prattling on about how great Misty is compared to every other female anime character. Tell me, do you still live with your parents? Are these really your opinions, or are they just what "the person who you owe your existence to" told you?

And when I called you a purist, I meant specifically in regards to Beauty and the Beast. Y'know, like how Agustinaldo is with Alice in Wonderland, specifically. Not that I expect you to understand this, considering your "must fit all qualifications, or none of them" mentality when it comes to things like this.

I don't think your problem has anything to do with Belle. I think your problem has everything to do with you. Because Belle didn't do what you would do in that situation. And I suspect the reality subtext regarding Howard Ashman also has something to do with it. I'm to understand you have a problem with how a certain group of people live their lives? Your problems with the film are yours, and yours alone. Or are they?

I'd tell you a third time that your opinions aren't facts, but then again, maybe they aren't your opinions after all. I wonder if you even have thoughts of your own, or if it's just your mother and your religion calling all the shots.