Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
Sister podcasters raised by 80s and 90s movies: Tracie Guy-Decker, lover of animation, Muppets, comedy, and feminism & Emily Guy Birken, storytelling nerd, mental health advocate, and pop culture aficionado
Disney’s Beauty & The Beast: Deep Thoughts About Classism, Stockholm Syndrome, and Yoga-Pants Feminism (Reprise Ep 6)
50 minutes Posted Aug 4, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Why Revisit This Disney Classic
Memories That Shaped Romance Expectations
French Roots And Identifying With Belle
Not Like Other Girls Discomfort
Classism Baked Into The Castle
Quick Plot Breakdown For Context
Servants As Objects And Consent
Stockholm Syndrome And The Trap
The Prince Problem And Identity
The Curse Logic And Collateral Damage
LGBTQ And Mental Health Readings
Final Synthesis And Support The Show
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Tale as old as time? It’s old, alright. True as it can be? Hmm, about that... Beauty and the Beast is an old and not-so-necessary model for romantic love. Hiding in the remarkable Howard Ashman score to this 1991 film is a not-like-other-girls feminism and a reified classism that isolates poor Belle and gives her no choice but to fall for her captor. The sisters grapple with the conditioning from this movie (and so ma...