Read This: Disney Rejection Letter, Circa 1938
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The thing that totally sucks about applying for a job is that you may face rejection -- and depending on which industry you're looking to work in, that rejection may come in the form of a letter. Some rejection letters then become more popular than others, especially if the person being rejected turned out to be a famous author (see this NPR piece about that) or ... a woman. See, back in 1938 it was awfully hard to find good work as a woman -- mainly because most (if not all) of the sought-after jobs were being given to men.
For example, a rejection letter (circa 1938) to a Miss Mary V. Ford from Walt Disney Productions was recently discovered, and considering how far we've come since then, it's kinda funny to read the blatant-but-awfully-nice-about-it sexism on display here. Especially hilarious is how they put a nice, sweet image of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs up top, but then underneath the signature is a picture of the wicked witch. What were you trying to say, Disney? It's important to note that the Walt Disney Co. has since changed their ways and currently both men and women (of all shapes and sizes) can certainly apply and be considered for any job they please.
Click below to read the letter in full.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-13-2009 @ 3:17PM
Claire said...
wow. that is just ridiculous. They didn't even consider her work. sometimes it's hard to understand how stupid people used to be; not to say some still aren't.
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1-13-2009 @ 3:36PM
Batzarro said...
They even acknoweledged they had high(or at least comparatively) demand for the work!
I wonder how the current "unequal payment" letters look.
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1-13-2009 @ 3:47PM
gwydion said...
What's funny is the letter was from a woman. At least it looks like "Mary" to me.
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1-14-2009 @ 5:31AM
asusiekablooie said...
haha I was just going to say that
1-13-2009 @ 4:08PM
theConundrumm said...
rehash
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/26/disney-rejection-let.html
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1-13-2009 @ 4:30PM
Erik Davis said...
Sorry, didn't know about the Boing Boing story from almost two years ago. A friend sent this to me -- apparently it's going around again. And I imagine there are some (like me) who haven't seen it.
1-13-2009 @ 4:57PM
Andy said...
read further:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=ww061101ws
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1-13-2009 @ 6:50PM
joits said...
who cares if its a rehash, like the author of this article, i never had seen or heard of this before so i'm glad he posted it. one of the reasons i hate digg... just because the digg addicts have seen every single story there is, doesn't mean that a story can't be recirculated or rehashed for those of us who don't spend every single moment of our lives online.
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1-13-2009 @ 9:02PM
Meredith said...
Disney is still completely full of fail, just in different ways.
*cough*NarniaAndPushingDaisies*cough*
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1-13-2009 @ 9:25PM
Wayne said...
Based on the image of the letter, which contains a number of strange inconsistencies, and the text from the link Andy included, I'm calling "shens". This is bogus.
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1-14-2009 @ 2:45PM
Bill said...
I'm afraid it is most definately NOT bogus. In the book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson (two of Disney's original "nine old men") write about the "Ink and Paint girls." Women were not trained to be animators or artists at Disney in those days.
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