• ganymede@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    it’s even worse than that cos the original text never said ariel’s human version race, they just assumed it lol.

    and before anyone says yes but its written by a dane, my response is yes but it’s a fairy tale, anything is possible. why assume and then get angry based on your assumption?

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      19 hours ago

      To be fair, skin tone usually develops due to exposure to the sun. If anything, mermaids probably are tanned on top (backs) and pale on their stomachs. Like great whites

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      and before anyone says yes but its written by a dane, my response is yes but it’s a fairy tale, anything is possible. why assume and then get angry based on your assumption?

      what slurs were used in her description?

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      I don’t know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully… But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for “making everything political”. And by migrant friends.

      One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.