Mowgli is set upon by the snake—Ka—who immediately reminded me of ideological trans identified groomers the likes of Jeffery Marsh. He hypnotizes Mowgli and slowly starts squeezing him. [...] No matter how much Mowgli thinks he can live in the jungle and can fight off the dangers alone, he can't. He's just a boy, and even adults can fall prey to predators. The reality is predators are lurking who are keen on keeping this boy from reaching the man village, just as there are predators like Marsh who are keen on keeping kids from reaching adulthood while trying to squeeze what they want out of them.
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Baloo is a perfect example of glitter families: fun, encouragement, no allowance for nay-saying or reality. Baloo encourages Mowgli's delusion and doesn't even try to take care of him aside from relatively empty platitudes, much to the chagrin of Bagheera. [...] Baloo shows the same lack of sincerity about his life and any negatives, which is also common in the TQ+ online communities, right down to the flippancy around injury and even (disturbingly) interspecies relationships.
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