This week on dontletthisflop, we talk Queen group threads and death memes, the surprisingly inspiring (if not gross) love story of Charles and Camilla, and racists pants-shitting over Halle Bailey’s casting in The Little Mermaid.
The whiny tweets carried more than a whiff of absurdity, with its implicit suggestion that there’s some sort of sanctity involved in the casting of a busty teenage mezzo soprano fish with no legs. Some, however, tried to make the “argument” that becauseLittle Mermaid
— to not cast a Danish-looking woman would represent a deviation from the source material. Of course, the original version of the story involves Ariel cutting out her tongue in exchange for feet that bleed constantly when she’s on land, and ends with her dissolving into sea foam after she considers stabbing Prince Eric and his new wife to death; in the Andersen story, she also has green skin.
Luckily, the backlash doesn’t appear to be diminishing the happiness of young Black girls, who have been posting incredibly poignant reaction videos to the teaser trailer on TikTok. Given that there’s only been one Black Disney princess in history , the sheer joy of young Black girls at seeing a young woman who looks just like them up on screen is a powerful counterbalance to all of the infuriating online hate.
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