As someone with experience in girls’ hockey (my 13-year-old daughter plays travel hockey), it’s misrepresenting the diversity on girls’ hockey teams. At most, there are a couple of Asian girls and for some city teams a black girl or two. It is overwhelmingly white no matter if it’s a city, suburban, or more rural team. If it was a girl’s basketball team and had mostly black girls, I wouldn’t be bringing it up since there is a higher chance of black girls playing basketball over white girls. But look up San Francisco Girls Hockey. There are very few other races that play girls’ hockey. If they were looking for the true makeup of a girls hockey team, they failed.

You say that because it’s a sequel and wth? They were hardly any boys in the 1st movie too, except Riley’s crush in the end, so that argument falls trash. This is about Riley and her emotions, not love life and guys, and y’all acting like you’re just hearing about an all girls sport team in 2024. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Or you’re just 100% sad, delusional and paranoid 🤡🤡🤡🤡

I have a thought on forced diversity.

When a cast is brown-washed, a woke person might think that she’s saying “It’s okay to be brown-skinned and you shouldn’t view it as a limitation”. But it’s not that simple. Every time the cast inappropriately shoves in a brown person, a perfectly good white person ends up getting pushed out. The more times this occurs, it sends another not-so-subtle message: “Brown-skinned people are superior. If you’re white, you’re not good enough”.

This may seem like a cognitive distortion, but the more it is reinforced, the more it will breed anxiety, envy and low self-esteem, not only among white kids who are disparaged as inferior, but also among brown kids who feel that their success is unearned. And DEI is not merely based in misguided kindness. Creating divisions and sowing anxiety, envy and low self-esteem is very intentional. The worse people feel about themselves, the easier they are to manipulate.

Gay people existing is not “pushing” an agenda.

Pretending you can erase ‘the gay’ would be pushing an agenda – as would implying you can ‘turn’ people gay. Neither of those things is a real thing; gay people are a real thing.

We do not believe that organic diversity is inherently “woke.” What becomes “woke” is when diversity is forced to meet Hollywood’s quotas. Consider this example: if a movie about inner-city basketball featured only one or two black kids, it would rightly be seen as unrealistic. But what if the filmmakers cast it this way, not to enhance the narrative, but out of a misguided sense of social justice? What if they did it because they believed that portraying an almost all-black inner-city basketball team was racist for no other reason than because of their skin color? This misguided belief mirrors the outspoken and documented approach at Disney, where diversity in the hockey team (in this case) is forced under similar assumptions about white people.

I came to look at the review after watching the movie because I thought it was leaning toward being woke. Although gender ideology/ the LBGTQ Agenda isn’t in your face in this movie I’ll read the review if theirs a third. I just wanted an honest opinion because although *SPOILER ALERT* it seems like Riley has crushes on boys, her obsession/ body language toward Val had me immediately wondering. But I’m an adult. Kids wouldn’t think so. I even googled it. Anyways after reading the review, my thoughts aren’t shared. So I could be wrong. What I am wondering about is why the DiVersity thing was under woke elements. I guess I’m a little confused as to why that’s considered a bad thing. Am I missing something? I understand that a large percentage of Hockey players are white, but what’s the big deal if their diverse in the movie? Wouldn’t that be a positive portrayal for children that aren’t white to feel like they can play it too? So I’m really confused about that one…and reading the other comments, someone said “the movies not woke, maybe apart from the hijab” which I also don’t understand how someone’s religious belief/ command (in their religion) is woke? Last time I checked, religious freedom is part of the protection of the actual first amendment lol…This one definitely doesn’t matter since it’s someone else’s opinion and not the OP’s view. But I guess I just don’t see how that is woke at all— such as LBGTQ being hammered into children’s minds etc.

I am 200% convinced that this movie has been severely edited to remove more political contents. it seems they are finally reining it in and got the right message from audiences (those paying tickets, not justice warriors). Even for someone who is very liberal, yet not US based, the domestic political messaging (irrelevant or misplaced for international markets and for 50% of the domestic one) was really insufferable.

The movie itself is so delicate in how it treats puberty that it’s a bliss. Compare it with Turning Red, and… well just don’t compare it with Turning Red (I am glad it went straight to streaming, so we could watch it beforehand, I really wouldn’t want to seat in a theater trying to explain 90% of that movie to a kid). We watched Inside Out 2 with the kids and it was as it used to be.

It’s time to reward the new route. Welcome back, Disney!