#'Matoaka is a real person tho!' well fuck me up I never knew thanks for the brilliant feedback

[fandom-rants]

yet another reminder that the movie Pocahontas would have been an Actually Acceptable Movie if the writer had just not pretended to be a budding historian and had used fake names for his obviously fake characters instead of pretending he was making a 'historical documentary with some creative liberties' because he preferred the white man's version of events

and maybe if he had we could all talk about how wonderfully a native woman and her father and culture were portrayed for once without having a bunch of teenagers start screaming about the history we are all already fully fucking aware of and we could focus on the actual racist problems with the film like the slurs and the 'Great Spirit' references which are in fact incorrect to original native beliefs before white people came and ruined them and how 'both sides were equally wrong' (I get what they were trying to teach children but no, fam) and the fact that the natives resorted to violence and war first instead of the white people which are the actual things I would like to talk about if these teenage animals would stop barking for ten minutes