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Geo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:30:08 -0000

It's a fun game to judge Walt's ways by today's standards, especially when Walt (and posthumously) Disney Inc, had spent so much effort to protect and burnish the myth and image of "Uncle Walt"...you know, the" he was a racist , sexist, ultra right wing red-baiting rat that screwed his employees, tried to bust unionization, had sex with J Edgar Hoover in drag for all we know" riff.... but it isn't exactly fair either.

Disney was a flawed human, no doubt about that...but we're all flawed to some degree.

Judge this letter by 1938 standards...not 2009's.

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Brian Reynolds — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:55:55 -0000

And yet, there were exceptions - Mary Blair, Retta Scott, Thelma Wittmer and others. What I don't understand is how they slipped (or fought their way) in? Mary Blair was Walt Disney's favorite designer, yet "girls are not considered for the training school"? I have a wonderful friend, Madelyn Davis, who was one of the co-creators and writers of "I Love Lucy," and her book chronicles her difficulty in getting into writing during the early '40's. She said that if it weren't for WWII (and so many of the men being drafted), she might never have gotten the chance to show what she could do.

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Marty — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:11:47 -0000

Not surprising.

The equal rights act and "Equal Employment Opportunity" weren't established until the 60's. There's a reason they had to be established.

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Bailee — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:19:02 -0000

"For this reason 'girls' are not considered for the training school."

That is amazing. In a bad way.