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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 9:52 am
(September 16, 2022 at 9:51 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (September 16, 2022 at 9:49 am)Ahriman Wrote: Ariel is a white girl with red hair. End of discussion.
If the discussion is Ariel in the Disney animated movie, then you are correct.
And she's at her most beautiful in that movie......?
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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 11:34 am
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(September 16, 2022 at 9:40 am)Angrboda Wrote: I know for a fact that the little mermaid is not white, but is rather possessed of skin of a decidedly bronze hue. I've been to Copenhagen and seen it with thine own eyes, damn you!
And illustrations of the fairy tale recorded by Hans Christian Anderson ofter depict her with dark hair. And the pics of Halle Bailey as the Little Mermaid that I've seen show her with red hair anyway.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 1:24 pm
(September 16, 2022 at 8:06 am)Ahriman Wrote: How much sense does it make to cast a black actress as the little mermaid when the original little mermaid was a white girl with red hair?
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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 3:50 pm
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It would be sweet if this sort of crime kept him out of further public offices...
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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 3:50 pm
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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 3:56 pm
(September 16, 2022 at 3:51 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (September 16, 2022 at 8:06 am)Ahriman Wrote: How much sense does it make to cast a black actress as the little mermaid when the original little mermaid was a white girl with red hair?
Need I remind you that the original little mermaid (152 years before the Disney film was released) ended up dissolving into sea foam? So if you’re going to raise a stink about not being faithful to the original, why not focus on something that actually has a material impact on the story?
Funny how there’s no record of conservative whack-a-loons being incensed when John Wayne was cast as Genghis Khan.
Different times, I suppose.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
September 16, 2022 at 4:04 pm
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Honestly, if there’s any Disney-owned variation on a public domain character people should be annoyed isn’t a readhead, it should probably have been Thor. Admittedly, being a redhead (and with a full beard) wouldn’t have changed anything, plot wise in the MCU, but anything that manages to A) distance Norse mythology from the racist dickheads who’ve come to latch onto it, and B) still be true to the original lore, would be a huge plus. At least making Heimdall black accomplished the first part.
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