Hurricane Hillary and The Wicked Queen

Memes sprouted up online as the rare, once-in-a-generation Hurricane Hilary threatened Los Angeles. “She’s back,” they all said. No one could mistake the namesake, with or without the extra “l.”

Just before the hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm and made its way toward me, I was revisiting Disney’s Snow White in the wake of comments made by Rachel Zegler, the young star chosen to revive and rebrand the Disney princess as non-white, feminist, and woke.

Gone were the seven dwarfs. Gone was the “skin as white as snow,” and there was talk of the infamous kiss that awakens Snow White to be surgically removed like the cancer it supposedly was.

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